What format should I have super 8 transferred into to use imovie 8 to edit?

I have a bunch of old super 8s that I will utilize a commercial lab to tranfer to digital so that I can edit them in imovie. What format would preserve the best quality and still be importable into imovie 8? I suppose I could also import into the previous version of imovie of need be as well so suggestions for both would be very helpful.
Thanks

You wouldn't really want them in a highly compressed format which is why you would be better with the miniDV tapes providing you can play them (HDV if they do them and you can play them) otherwise you might go for DV on a data DVD, but you'll only get 20 minutes on a disc.

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