Transferring footage

[Lucky8]

Taking the hybrid film-making approach with Super-8, and was wondering in your honest opinion what medium storage device I should transfer my footage onto to receive the best quality/highest resolution?

Editing using Final Cut Pro, in case your wondering.

Appreciate your opinions. Thanks again.

Still a newbie.

L8

[grainy]

Use a hard drive, not tape. I had mine transferred to one of those durable, rubberized hard drives you can get for 100 bucks now. That's 500 gigs for a hundred bucks, so you can fit a heck of a lot of HD-quality transferred footage on it. And you can reuse it over and over, and it's not gonna get demagnatized, and it doesn't take much to make the formatting compatable these days, whereas tape requires all kinds of crapola.
Hope this helps.

[carllooper]

Note that the storage medium doesn't affect resolution.

Perhaps what you really want to know is what file format to use. For best quality I'd suggest that the data be saved uncompressed. However many place are not able to actually do that, but in asking for such they may be able to offer you a compromise. MotionJPEG is one such compromise. While the frames are compressed (jpegs), there is no motion compression between frames.

Note, however that uncompressed files will probably not scrub well in your editor. But they are good masters and particularly useful when doing grading and special effects. And you can always render out a compressed copy from such, ie. render out whatever works well with your editor.

Carl