Best format to request for someone to send me HD video

Someone recently took a HD video of me on vacation and would like to send it to me. They were using a Sony HD camcorder with hard drive. They are a Windows user, so I assume they will be importing the footage into Windows MovieMaker or other PC video editing package.
I'd like to have him upload a source file to my public iDisk folder that I can bring into iMovie.
Any recommendations on formats and best practices here would be appreciated.
MEK

never done that..
but I assume, best practice would be to let him upload his originals .ts files from his HDDcorder - they are small, allready massivly compressed..and any interim encoding wouldn't add any quality to that....
after doing so, it is you/your brave Mac which has to do the conversion into something useful for iM.. so, it is a single-conversion, no two-step (=lossy) process..
if he has installed Quicktime for Windows on his machine, a h264 compression should do the job too = to send only the edited parts..
divx and esp wmv is of no use on your side..
and no, 'avi' is no format, just a media container.. which could contain codecs, iM can handle, but couldn't either..

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