Need advice for Home Videos to dvd-r Quality wise

[jra111]

Im trying to go through all my Home videos (about 50 Hi-8 Tapes) and edit them down to what I would ever watch again and put them on DVD-r. I have burned a few with no problems using Showbiz,Mydvd,And Windows movie maker. At first I was capturing straight to Mpeg2 and the best quality through Mydvd and it was ok but sometimes very pixelated. Then I read to capture to AVI 720x480 ,edit,and trancode to Mpeg2 way better results . When I do it that way there is very little if at all any pixelation,but now there is a slight haze of like movie grains.

My question is since these are my home videos I would like them to be the best they can be so would it be better to start using Tmpegnc ? I have read everything I can and IM still confused about what it does and is it a frameserver and what is frameserving ?

Maybe I could send a movie I did to someone to see if tmpegnc would even help I dont know?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks Joey

[SLK001]

Well, I suggest that you either read some more, or just dive right in. First, do a forum search on "AVI capture" for the best codec (HUFFYUV??), then capture your tapes to your harddrive at the MAXIMUM bitrate that you can (NOTE: be prepared to chew up a LOT of disk space).

Fire up TMPG and import your .AVI file (it is not a frameserver, but you can frameserve to it). Set the output format to your particular area (NTSC, 720x480 DVD for US). Until you understand the options, leave them as defaults. Encode. Wait for encode to complete (can be as long as 20X your video length). View results. If you like results, repeat with other tapes.