hi all...i have a Sony RDR-GX330 settop dvd recorder. now i record things off of my television like music performances and some shows. i use dvd decrypter to rip the recordings to my hard drive so i can do things like cut out commercials, add fade in/out etc. i also record at the highest quality so only 1 hour of video is available on a dvd+r. i would like to fit around 2 hours on a dvd so i use CCE SP to re-encode the video.

what i would like to know is what settings should i use in CCE if my recordings are NTSC 720x480 interlaced. should i use top field first when re-encoding? and are there any other settings i should use? thanks very much for any help.

also should i use dvd2avi or dgindex when creating the .d2v file and should i be set to pc or tv scale when doing it? thanx again.