I assemble video productions (low level concert DVD's, short documentaries) at low cost. My understanding of much of the technical aspects of video production is beginner, so I don't need a very involved process here. My question is this: if I'm capturing DV via the Sony VidCap into Vegas 7 from a Sony VX-2100 via firewire, directly to my hard drive, is there any compression taking place during the import of that footage? As it automatically saves into an avi file, is there a place where I can choose to change the format it's saved as? I just want to have as clean of raw video files as I can. I just know when I've rendered the imported avi files into an mov file, they look smoother, and I was wondering if I can change the import settings into mov format. Also, regarding a 2 hour long concert with 4 DV cameras that I just edited, I don't want to re-import, so I'm hoping that the default capture settings were the best possible (PLEASE tell me they were... lie to me!). Is there someplace where VidCap gives you setting options? Thanks much.