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Storing to DV tape is the best way to keep original quality since Quicktime compresses movies to reduce file sizes, thus causing a loss in quality. The other option would be to keep the project on a hard drive or back it up to DVD-Ram (due to its huge size). However, if you do the math...

If it's worth anything, I own a Sony Digital 8 camcorder which can act as an analog to digital converter through the input (see testuser's message above). Digital 8 will give you the same quality as DV, except the camera uses Hi8 tapes to record and those are quite a bit cheaper to buy...

Sorry mate, won't happen! You will lose A LOT of quality as soon as you move away from a DV stream, which is equivalent to raw footage from a DV cam. In that particular format, for 1 hour +, you're looking at a file in the tens of GB!!! If you're prepared to burn several CDs AND your...