Archives to DV files
 

Hi, I volonteer for a non profit organization. We have hundreds of tapes (vhs, Umatic, dvcam, betacam) and we want to digitize everythin. We have the new Imac and Final Cut Studio 2.
How should we capture and archive? Quicktime , H.264, mpeg2, other?
The goal is to keep the quality as good as possible.
Thanks for your advices.

I'd imagine uncompressed, but I may be wrong.
However you DEFINITELY want to store all that externally.
I'd hate to spend the countless hours importing all of that and then your iMac crashing.

Thanks Nate, of course we plan to back up.
Anybody have an answer or practical suggestion to my question , what do you recommand for capture and archive? Thnaks