Holadem said raw footage, indicating he'll maybe edit all this sometime. DV = all I-Frames. Meaning it's the best for editing. You can't throw mpeg-2 files in all the top editing programs, and although you can with Divx it's very slow and choppy as it has to deal with p- and b-frames. For the...
DVD-Rs don't last forever, but if you go that route and the data is very important burn at the slowest speed. :D They can also be lost or scratched if you're not careful. Best thing to do is to setup 2 harddrives in RAID-1. Or spread out the data to multiple computers in the house. I have a...