Need some advice...

[storm828]

I want to transfer some of my Hi8 recordings to DVD. I have an ATI All In Wonder Radeon 7500 that I am using to do the captures from the camcorder. What is the best resolution to capture in? Should I capture in 640 (or 720) x 480 and then deinterlace in VirtualDub? Another option is to capture in 320x240 and resize with VirtualDub, that way I don't have to worry about deinterlacing. Capturing in 320x240 and encoding to MPEG2 at 720x480 gives terrible results.

Any ideas???

[therick]

I would suggest that you read a lot more of the guides before you posted this, but seeing as it has been a while and it doesn't look as though you are going to get any other response here are some general rules of thumb:

1. you never upsize video...it always looks terrible (but you found this out)
2. 320x240->720x480 is not an option if you want to be able to tell who you are looking at in the video. You will have to capture at LEAST 352x240 to put it on a DVD (but this will NOT be regular DVD quality)
3. 640x480 is not DVD spec...720x480 is...other streams you could put on a DVD would be 352x240 MPEG-1 or 352x480 MPEG-2...the MPEG-1 would have to be de-interlaced but the M-PEG-2 would not have to be...because M-PEG-2 suports interlacing...

this is only the tip of the iceberg...and by your questions I would suggest that you have a lot more reading to do...