MATLAB Image Acquisiton best practice

Hello,

I have question regarding best practice when using the image acquisition toolbox in MATLAB.

For most of the image acquisition projects that I have done I have collected single images in a for loop. This process works but is not ideal if I need to collect a large number (run out of memory) of images or if I want to collect images at a high rate. I am using high resolution gige cameras for my image acquisition.

I would like to know if it is better to record images to an AVI file and then extract the individual frames after the image acquisition is complete. I require individual image frames for post processing. Will this result in any loss of resolution or quality of the recorded images?

Thank you,