editing mpg2 to dvd without quality loss

[dailM]

Hello,

I use a Sony DCR-SR55 (with harddisk) for simple homevideos. Very nice and easy camera of course but after editing the mpg2 clips in Adobe Premiere CS3, the video quality and especially transition effects are pretty bad in comparison with the original footage.

Now i'm wondering if there is a way/application that can edit mp2 and author it to dvd without compressing the mpg2 files again?

My only requirements for editing are being able to cut clips, add music and maybe some fade/transition effects.

I'm quite new with video-making so I hope that my question is clear and looking forward to any reactions.


Thanks.

[M Bruner]

If you had the Master Collection, you could do what I did. My wife's sewing machine came with a 38-minute VHS cassette. It explained everything the machine could do, but no way to navigate quickly to where in the tutorial you wanted to look. So I captured the entire tutorial to Premier Pro, put subtitles where the sublect matter changed. Then I rendered the video to Encore, set the chapter markers where subject matter changed, made a DVD menu there, and burned it. Just one compression.

[hech54]

I'm sold on Magix Movie Edit myself. Very easy to use and uses Smart Rendering....it really is hard to beat IMO.