If I was getting an outside house to digitise analogue film for me I'd give them an external FW drive to download it onto. That way I'd have as high a quality footage as possible and it'd be ready to begin editing without having to download/uncompress/dehumidify/vaccinate etc. Coj Andre Balogh <invicta at xs4all.nl> > DO NOT have them transferred to DVD. Have them transferred to DV > tape. Then import it yourself from a DV camera. > > When DVD's are created, the content is compressed. So you would be > uncompressing the DVD, editing it and then recompressing to go back > on DVD. > > -- > Nick Scalise > nickscalise at mac.com I own no DV camera, so is there no other solution ? Andre.