Alright...DV to MPEG2. Best way of going about it?

[CursedLemon]

That doesn't involve me spending $500 on an encoder?

[freebird73717]

Depends on how much control you want over the whole process. If you just want a basic dvd with simple or no menus then look at avstodvd.

If you want more control over the final product you can learn to use programs like HCenc, wavi/aften, and guifordvdauthor.

All of which I've mentioned are free!

There are commercial products that do well also but I'll let others give suggestions there as I predominately use the freeware apps.

edit
all of this is assuming that you want dvd as your final end product.

[CursedLemon]

Yes, I want to burn a DV capture to DVD for my father, no frills. The only thing I need is the conversion to happen (also a way of burning the DVD that won't re-convert it).

[freebird73717]

Then avstodvd will do exactly what you want. It will encode the audio/video, author the dvd, and burn all using excellent freeware apps.

[CursedLemon]

I can't seem to take AVStoDVD off of PAL resolution, do you know how?

I eliminated the "Lanczos3 resize" line from the autogenerated Avisynth script, is that all I need to do?

[guns1inger]

Go into Preferences and change the project to NTSC, then start the project again

[CursedLemon]

Thank you muchly, will report back once conversion is finished.

[CursedLemon]

asdjhfaksjldf Nevermind.