What file format should I digitize film to ?

I'm having some old 16 mm film footage digitized (by a film lab), and am wondering what format(s) to have it done in. I'm sending them a portable drive to download the files. I want a good quality digital master for archival purposes, but would also like to have a file format which I can import into iMove'9 to do a basic edit.

It depends.
If the lab can do High Definition, get Motion JPEG if they can do it. Get Apple Intermediate Codec if they can do it. Motion JPEG-A is about the most you can do in iMovie. If you have Final Cut Pro and a fast machine, you can ask for uncompressed video.
If they can only do standard definition, DV is OK.
I recently had some 8MM scanned by MyMovieTransfer .com (Debenham Media Group). They did a nice job and gave me Motion Jpeg-A.
[Here is a link to the thread where I describe the experience and show some videos.|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11353762&#11353762]
On their site, they have some sample 16MM footage in Motion JPEG. You can download it and test it on your iMovie.

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