Digitizing Old 8mm Video

[cdavec]

I've got some old 8mm analog video that I'm trying to digitize and burn onto DVDs. I'm fairly computer literate, but I'm a total noob when it comes to this video stuff.

I purchased a USB video capture device (see http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000234SMQ/), and I'm able to capture the video and convert it into AVIs, but the video has lines through it when there is motion in the picture. I think it's called interlacing. I've tried half a dozen video capture programs and none of them seem capable of fixing the problem.

So here are my questions:

1.) What's the best way to get rid of the interlacing?

2.) Do I really want to get rid of the interlacing if I'm burning DVDs?

3.) What video capture software is best?

4.) What are the optimal software settings for digitizing analog video?

Many thanks

Dave

[MOVIEGEEK]

Those USB devices aren't the best way of capturing but there are a few ways to improve your capture:
1.Capture upper field first, when you author a DVD also select UFF.
2.Capture 352x240(288 PAL), that way there's no interlacing. The downside is it's lower resolution.
3.Capture in MPEG-2, that way there's no conversion from AVI to MPEG.

I would just burn a DVD as is to see how it looks on a tv, what looks bad on a LCD monitor(which is progressive) may look better on a tv(which is interlaced). I wrote a guide for VideoStudio but it applies to other programs:


videostudio%20guide.pdf