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  1. What is the best and cleanest route to follow to get a recording from TV to DVDr. I'm currently recording the show to my DV recorder (composite cables) then downloading to Ulead Media Studio Pro 6.5 where I edit and create a mpeg2 file then create the menu and burn the DVDr in Ulead DVD Workshop.
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    That's pretty much the setup I use... only difference is that I use a good, high-end VCR as my TV tuner and pipe the output, via RCA and S-video cables, into a Dazzle DVbridge (for now; I plan on buying a Canopus soon ) and record directly to the hard drive. (I also record the show onto tape at the same time, as a backup in case something screws up during the live capture.) Then MSP6.5 to encode, and DVDWS 1.2 to author and burn.

    I'm using MSP 6.5's "NTSC DVD (MPEG.Now!)" project template for encoding, and usually leave it set at the defalt settings (VBR video w/6000kbps video, 224kbps MPEG audio stream, 720*480 frame) for most situations. (This typically results in a file somewhere between 3.5 - 4Gb in size for approx. 90 minutes of video, which is a 2-hour show with the commercials edited out.) The resulting picture quality has been quite acceptable, even on a friend's 50-something-inch widescreen TV.

    (Occasionally, I have run the bitrate down and switched to a 352x240 CIF frame size for old, old VHS recordings made on lower-quality equipment, or for material where picture quality isn't as much of an issue)
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