HPX shooting at 1080 24p 59.94hz advice needed!!

Here's the problem:

I have a Panasonic HPX 171 p2 camera. I am currently shooting 1080 at 25p. This is all in Pal land (i'm based in Europe).

I am using Sony Vegas 9 to edit.

I want to shoot at 1080 at 24 frames.

To do this I have to change the frequency from 50HZ to 59.94HZ

This takes me to NTSC where the frame rate of the footage defaults to 29.970 on the actual footage when I put it on the Vegas timeline.

To render the footage smoothly on Vegas (to be played back on Youtube) what do I have to do to enable smooth playback?

In properties what would be the best settings? (24 frames 1080 i'm assuming)

And what would be the best render settings?

Would I have to disable resample on each piece of footage?
Currently it is at playback 1.000 and undersample is 1.000 - beside that says 29.970 fps.

Remember this is to all playback smoothly for uploading on YouTube but if I wanted to view it back on my TV would I have to change any of the above settings differently?

Lastly, what would be the best quality for my camera? 1080 24p, 1080i?

I feel that my footage could be so much better quality than what I have been shooting at using 1080 25p at 50HZ...I shot 1080 24p 59.94HZ a year ago and the picture quality was amazing, but I had so many problems with blurriness when editing it on Vegas and trying to pull down and use the correct frame rate / pulldown on Vegas.

Any advice at all on this would be much appreciated.

I'm still trying to get to grips with the camera.

Thanks

Anthony

I like to know why you think that is better? Better than shooting at 1080i 25fps? I would like to shoot for something that may be used for broadcast purposes as well. Any suggestions on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

- AJF -