Best format to save all vhs tapes for future fce

game plan....in panther i am converting all my vhs tapes to dv into fce, then cutting out any junk shots and then exporting to my huge external drive for future use in fce to make movies to idvd 5.
keeping in mind that quality is utmost important.. even though vhs is already soso..so i think a hi compression is a no no.
since fce works in qt do i just export qt movie or should i consider qt conversion to dv stream? mpeg 4 ? or ?????
plus,, 5 years from now i dont want to have it in a format that no longer is in use...

Just use the native Quicktime format of FCE. Don't use any conversion. Just the Quicktime Movie option on export.

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