I've had a Digital8 camera for a long time. When capturing video the files are in .avi. Is that compressed at all? In looking at the mini dv cameras, I'm having trouble finding info about what they record in, is it .avi also or mpeg2? I'm wondering, if it's mpeg, how can the picture quality be better than with .avi? These are probably stupid question to those of you who are up on all of this, but I've learned that it's a good choice to ask in this forum for it's wealth of knowledge. Also, what about the new high definition stuff (of course the lower price range for me)? Does Vegas (v4) handle that and what format is that recorded in? Thanks for any info you can offer.