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What is a good approach to convert hi8 to blu ray. Quality vs. Quanity?

I have a friend who asked me to convert his old hi8 tapes to blu rays for archiving.  He gave me 20 tapes about 50-80% full.These videos are just your classic home-videos (wedding, vacations, kids, etc.) shot on hi8 tapes. Nothing fancy.

I plan on buying a 500 gb external drive and capturing to that, then converting and burning the captured files to blu rays (using Sony DVD Architect Pro 5.2). This way, I can give him the external drive with the digital files as a spare to the blu rays. I'm using one of those video-capture-usb tools and connecting to the camera through a composite out.

I captured one tape already as a .avi
It came out as about 1.8 GB, Codec xvid mpeg-4, 640-480, at 29.97 framerate.

I want to fit as many tapes as possible on the blu rays without noticeable quality loss. Any insight on if/what I should compress these to before burning?
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Personally, I would just go with the MP4.

I don't know if doing them in Hi-Def would do anything, but make the files bigger. Maybe somebody else has a better notion on that.
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Thanks for the Help !!
Your welcome. Thank you.