From DV to DVD - Do this seems right?

[Dexxa20]

I have been trying for some time to convert from DV to DVD. I have been using my computer to edit movies for a pretty long time but this DVD editing is new to me. I had to struggle kinda long before i got a desecent resultat but i am finally kinda happy. I am capturing my movies with adobe premiere 6,5 interlaced and Lower field (B) and edit it with adobe premiere and the export it as a AVI DV movie to my harddrive. And then i use TMPGEnc to convert it to Mpeg2 with the following settings
2-pass VBR with a averange of 700kbit/sec and maxium of 8000kbit/sec and minimum 2000kbit/sec and standard P picture (0) och B picture(20) spoilage, Encode mode: Interlace(as my source) and component precision: 9bits(wondering what the difference of using 8/9/10bits is using 9bits atm) and "Motion search precision: "High Quality (slow)" was using "Motion Estimate search (fast) before but i got the feeling the other setting was better.

The audio is in VBR Mpeg-1 layerII amd 384kbit/sec

and then i use Ulead Moviefactory to burn my mpeg2 file. I am wondering if i am doing something wrong or if anyone have any other suggestion on how i should do it. The source material is from a really expensive 3ccd camera...

any sugestions är tip would be great or just say if i am doing it right already (have been studing all the guides here and learnt alot)

[catdog6]

Do your movies look noticeably better when you use TMPGEnc to encode them?

I'm new to this too and I've been capturing DV with DVD Movie Factory Demo, editing with Videowave 4 and encoding and burning with Movie Factory. I haven't used TMPGEnc. I looked at it but it had so many settings I was confused. Is DVD Movie Factory the best thing for burning and do you think it's good for capturing just not encoding????

I just want to make sure I'm getting the best quality since I don't plan on keeping the miniDV tapes after I put it on DVD.

Also, Do you know how to pull the video back off of the DVD for editing without any loss of quality?

Thanks,

Kevin

[yg1968]

I have had better results using constant quality 75%, min 2000, max 8000 than 2 pass vbr with DV.