ATI AIW 9800 PRO Captures

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Hello everyone, I am new to the forums and a have a question for anyone with answers. I am capturing using an ATI AIW Radeon 9800 Pro. My goal is to transfer all of my analog 8mm home movies to DVD-R. I have read lordsmurfs suggestings on ATI presets but still have questions on the actual authoring. I would like to retain the best quality from these transfers then author to DVD-R complete with transition effects and music.

Each 8mm tape is 120min so it is my intent to place one 120 min tape onto one DVD-R. The question I have is this: What is the best format to capture to for near lossless quality and can I do this without having to re-encode after the capture? Also, What software then would I use to create the actual DVD-R so that it's compliant and complete with chapters etc.

The AIW came with Pinnacle Studio 8, Muvee Autoproducer, and Mediator 7

Any input would be great. THX

[Craig Tucker]

What is the best format to capture to for near lossless quality

Huffyuv

and can I do this without having to re-encode after the capture?

No, you would then need to encode to DVD compliant mpeg2. Suggest tmpgenc for this

Also, What software then would I use to create the actual DVD-R so that it's compliant and complete with chapters etc.

Take your pick DVD-lab and tmpgenc dvd author are highly regarded.

[FOO]

If you don't need to edit your video, you can capture
directly to DVD compliant MPEG2 with good quality with
the ATI stuff.
i do this a lot. If you use about 4500kb/s VBR at 720 x 480
and MP2 audio, you should fit 1 DVD nicely.
You will have to make your own custom capture profile.

Try it and watch the MPEG on your computer to see if it's good enough
It will save MANY hours of encoding.