A little off topic. New camera. File type?

Thomas Whaley wrote:

… . For sports … 720/60p, 35mbps looks great. For corporate work and documentaries I like … 1080/30p. What do you think? …

uhm, well… answering this question soon gets philosophical … if not esoteric! LOL

60fps has a much higher 'motion resolution', whereas 24p allows slower shutter speeds, the basic ingredient for the sought-after 'movies' look...-

… watched Peter Jackson's frame-rate experiment HOBBIT, done in 48fps = for me old man it looked odd, 'electronic', my lil' son = generation PlayStation (120fps…) told me "looks good/normal"

recording indoors/some artificial lights can create all sort of trouble when power line frequency and rec fps don't match (30 vs 50, 24 vs 60 etc)

finally: distribution - YT swallows it all, broadcast US/Japan ask for 29.97 (who decided THAT??), world=25fps…

summary: test it, trust your eyes what fits your needs best (don't overkill your brain with too much theory, use energy for movie making.... 😉 )

Thomas Whaley wrote:

… Which is best for FCP? …

Dare to say, not FinalCut is the limiting factor, but your needs:

a 720/60fps (in antique mpeg2) is quiet different than a 1080/24fps (in 50mbps mxf). AVCHD is capped to 28mbps by standards …

There are several 'knobs' to play with conc. quality - bit-rate is one (a major…) of them, but older=less effective codecs burn bandwidth more than newer ones … plus, codecs can be implemented quiet differently.

in short: FCPX handles all on that list http://pro.jvc.com/prof/attributes/specs.jsp?model_id=MDL102268&feature_id=03