I have done a fair amount of searching here without definative results.
I have a MiniDV camcorder and I want to capture edit and burn VDC or SVCD.
I have:
Amd T-Bird 1.4Ghz
1/2G Hi-Perf RAM
Dedicated 20G 7200RPM HD
GeForce4 MX 440 64M DDR Vid Card
Firewire card (is the brand important here?)

I have MovieStar5 (pathetic in my opinion no raw capture)
Ulead Video Studio 7 (ok)
TMPGEnc
ScLIVE
VCDEasy

I have had OK results capturing thru Video Studio and procesing thru VCDEasy.
The result was color a little washed out and there is noise around objects mainly the players and the ball in SVDC. I'm not expecting a disc to have film quality at all just good color balance and little noise...a decnt picture.
Oh I am viewing this on a 53" Sony HD Capable RPTV would it look better on a direct view since my RPTV will show all defects in source????

As I stated earlier I have tried to find tips that pertain to my situation but I'm not trying copy VCD/SVCD/VHS or DVD and alot of the advice here has to do with that.
So if someone could get me started on how to utilize what I have with decent result let me know...or am I expecting too much?
From the forum I guess I am expecting too much as there have been no replies whatsoever....thank you.
Nolanski