What format do I use for upcoming program?

I've been editing in SD now for 35 years and have finally made the switch to HD (it's about time!) I bought a new Sony camera and shot a program in XDCAM. I need to add some footage from an existing commercial. What format should I ask the ad agency to send me. I've been editing in CS5 for some time and am trying out CS6 and plan to buy that over the next couple days. To be honest with you, I don't even know what the native Premiere HD format is. I'm a good editor, just technically stunted.

I am interested, though, in which delivery formats to avoid for editing and those that are desirable for editing.
It does depend on a particular project.
If footages are intended for significant colour correction, pulling a key or time remapping etc., shoot as uncompressed as you can.
In the rest cases you can enjoy smaller disk space occupied by highly compressed footages (e.g. AVCHD ones).
And a couple of words regard to transcoding.
Depending on your spec, transcoding may yield significant time savings in some workflows (e.g. when it is necessary to render the Timeline several times). However, since PrPro is capable of upsampling highly compressed footages 'on the fly', placing them into 32 bit colour space, transcoding doesn't give any advantages in terms of quality (check out this thread and run your own tests if you want).

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