Project settings for .AVI files containing SVHS footage?

What are the best Project Settings to use with (uncompressed) .AVI files containing SVHS camcorder footage in NTSC 4:3 format.
SVHS is not explicitly mentioned in the choices. I would like to retain as much resolution as possible.
Details:
Source = Magnavox Movie Maker Camcorder
Tape Format === SVHS (2 hours per tape)
Video Standard = NTSC
Aspect Ratio === 4:3
Converter ===== Tapes were converted to .AVI files using a Canopus ADVC300 (S-Video in to Firewire out) .
Compression == I believe the files are uncompressed. 2 hours of footage is about a 25 GigaByte file. 3.47 MegaBytes per second?
Audio ======== Stereo
As a guess, I would choose NTSC-DV-Standard 48Khz .
Is this the best choice?
Will this setting preserve all the SVHS video resolution ?
Thank you,
Gerald

Your guess is correct. During the Canopus digitizing your SVHS input is converted to 720x480 NTSC. The digitizing produces a complete video input that PRE captures. Averages of around 13GB per hour are typical. So from the figures you have quoted your digitizer has done its job properly.
Digitizing tapes was the subject of a long topic discussion earlier this month - you might find it interesting: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5906986?tstart=0. While that discussion was relating to VHS tapes, SVHS still only produces around 400 usable horizontal lines, so the Canopus will have captured it all at 720x480.
Cheers,
Neale
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