Real Time mpeg2 capture? Should I do that or something else?

[Greg Takacs]

I have both Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.0 and Ulead DVD Workshop 1.2 installed on my machine.

Both software's capture mode is capable of capturing real time mpeg2 from analog source. However I am not sure that it will yield the best results if I want to master it onto DVD+R after I have edited it in Media Studio Pro.

Will I get better results by capturing in some other format then do all the editing and then output the final version to an mpeg2 stream? What format/software should I use to capture the video in?

[LanceSteel]

I would capture to avi using some lossless (or nearly lossless) codec. Then convert to a mulitple-pass VBR Mpeg2 using a Mpeg2 encoder of your choosing (something like Tmpeg or CCE.) On-The-Fly Mpeg2 encoding is usually pretty crapppy.

[Bel]

You can get pretty good results on the encoding with mpeg2, so long as your bitrate is high enough, but it's the editing that will drive you insane...