Hi,
My ultimate goal is capture still images off video that has been recorded with my Sony DV camera and put these still images on DVD. The original video that was shot is actually from a 3CCD VIDEO Camera(not camcorder) and recorded onto DV tape via the S-Video Input on my DV camera. This recorded video is of X-ray films. The 3ccd camera is pointing down at the x-ray(camera on a stick) and the xray is obviousley not moving so essentially I am shooting still objects.
When I play this video(from the DV tape) back on a TV(S-video) the image looks great. Even when I press pause it looks just as good. Now I want these images on DVD but I want as close to the same quality as the origianl DV tape.
I used Video2Photo to capture stills off the DV tape. What I did was pause the DV tape and simply capture the frame using that program. I set it to the highest quality JPG. When I opened the JPG's with my viewer, I was very impressed with the quality. I didnt buy the DVD recorder yet but I wanted to test the image quality of the JPGs so I burnded a SVCD using VCDeasy. The SVCD played fine in my DVD player hooked up to the TV but the contrast was bad. The whites with some grey were blooming and and the dark areas that had some grey on the orginal film and JPGs were too dark or black. I didnt see any problem with the resolution, just the contrast.
Since the JPG's looked good on the computer, I am assuming that the poor contrast is coming from the JPG to Mpeg conversion or after that.

Here is where I need some help!
I have no experience with burning DVD's.
Will I get better image quality if I put these Jpgs onto DVD rather than SVCD. And by "better image quality", in my application, I mean better contrast????

The xrays I am shooting are chest films and I need to see all the shades of grey. As I mentioned before, they do look good on the captured jpgs but I need help after that!!!!
Thanks for your time and I hope someone can help shed some light on this.