Capture situation, Final Cut Capture for Premiere use

[kurdt_rs]

Hey, I hope you guys can help me. Here's the situation. I'm working on a student film for class. We shot on mini dv. One of the other group members captured the tapes in final cut pro, and provided us all with the capture scratch. But I would prefer to use Premiere Pro 2 on my PC laptop for the editing, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which so I can work on this at home.

I was given the assets on my Macdrive, but my PC laptop can't read the drive. So at the mac lab at school, I burned the assets onto a DVD that my laptop can read. But the thing is, there aren't any file extensions associated with the files, so I'm not sure what the best way to go about this will be.

Just to test, I copied one of the shots from the DVD onto the laptop, and renamed it with the extension .mov. When played on its own, it looked terrible, through Quicktime. But when I imported that file into Premiere, it looked better (though I'm not sure it looked as good as it should. It might have, the shot itself was kind of a dark one). So... is this what I should do? Should I copy the files onto the hard drive, give them all the .mov extension, and import them? I didn't try giving them a .avi extension, would this be better? What's the best way to approach this situation, given that I don't have immediate access to the tapes? Thanks.

Edit: It appears that I may have posted this in the wrong forum. Sorry about that, chock it up to newbness. I thought capturing would be the best fit, but I see now that this is mainly capturing analog video. Doh!! Mods, feel free to move this to the appropriate forum.

[kurdt_rs]

In fact, mods, if you could please move it to the appropriate forum so it will get some attention, I would very much appreciate it.