Hi all:

I'd like to put two DVDs with frame size of 720x568, bitrate of 4000kbps and play time of 2 hours to one DVD. I am using Ulead Visual Studio.

My original idea was to re-encode: rip the VOB files from two DVDs to hard disk, re-authore them in Visual Studio, set the bite rate to 2400kbps, then render and burn. I understand that I should use half D1 at this bitrate.

Then I learned that there are other ripping/compressing tools available. Since I want to keep the quality loss less, I would like to know that if Ulead Visual Studio can do this well with the above steps, or I should consider other tools or encoder (like DVD Rebuilder, MainConcept MPEG Encoder, TMPGEnc, etc.) to re-encode or compress or both.

Thanks for your help,

Zhixin