Rendering recommendations

[MgPainter]

In the past all of my captures have been in VCD format. The VCD disks play OK, but of course the quality is marginal.

I just started to capture more video and am looking for higher quality and DVD compliant. My capture card LeadTek WinFast 2000XP Deluxe has the capture format option of MPEG2 (three levels of quality), but I'm getting distortion in the audio and video even at the lowest quality . So until I figure out the problem there, I'm capturing to MPEG-1, 320x240 and 5000kbps without any video or audio problems.

I'm using Ulead Visual Studio6 to edit out the commercials and convert the file to DVD format. Right now I don't have a DVD burner, but I'm hoping to get one soon. Does it sound like I am on the right track? Also have TMPEGEnc Plus and TMPEGEnc DVD author software.

[Twister_29]

You can edit out the commercials with TMPGEnc DVD Author.

Check this link:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/159800.php

(scroll down to the authoring part - Edit Clip)

BTW: TDA is an awesome authoring program if you want simple menu's. I have not had ANY problems with audio/video sync issues (like I did with DVD MovieFactory2, etc.)

[Craig Tucker]

If your capture card is capable of it capture in AVI format with huffyuv compression, then convert to mpeg using TMPGEnc. This takes longer but will give a better end product than capturing straight to mpeg.