I pulled out my camcorder (Sony MiniDV) and started messing around with putting the files on my computer. After spending a few hours with this I'm still at a loss as to which file format to save it as.

I'm just using Windows Movie Maker and the main 2 options are WMV & AVI.
The options I'm considering are:

- WMV: 720x480, VBR (variable bit rate), 30 frames per second
- AVI: 720x480, 30 MBPS, 30 frames per second

My main goal of this is to store the files on my computer. At some point in the future I may put on DVD and do very minor editing.

I'm leaning towards WMV since the file size is so much smaller and looking at the same 2 videos with each setting they look identical. However, if AVI is a lot better quality I'll do that since hard drive space is so cheap.

Any input?