constant / variable bitrate

[surfer]

I know there is a lot of written but it is still not clear to me.

I am capturing from a vhs analog videoracorder the movies i have put there are from a analog camera. These or home movies. I want to put thes tapes to my pc and then edit en author them with pinnacle studio 8 (making the movie's like real movies) en then a menu with ulead dvd moviefactory 3 disc creator.

My question is: which bitrate can i best use and constant or variable?
I know a dvd is looking good at: vbr 4600 - 8000 peak.

But is this nessesary to put the peak so hi? And is it nessesary to use vbr in stead of cbr?
Nessesary for my meaning is when i can see difference on my tv like dissortions of pixels falling etc.
There must be 1.5 hour on a dvd.
Can anywhone give a simple answer or is the materie to complicated.

[Capmaster]

Your ultimate capture bitrate will depend on what you're going to do with it. Since it looks like you're planning on putting it on DVD and have a time goal of 1-1/2 hours, I'd say start with DVD full-D1, 720 (or 704)x480 if NTSC and 720x576 if PAL, MPEG-2 (DVD), variable bitrate, 48 Khz audio, 224 Khz sampling rate, and start with something in the area of 5500 Kbps average 7000 Kbps peak. Use a compressed audio like AC3 or MPEG-1 Layer 2. Stay away from "LPCM" or "PCM". This should yield a file of about 4 GB, mileage may vary. This will give you a pretty decent DVD. Any shortcomings in the finished product will be a result of the source and not the capture/author process, which is how it should be.

[donpedro]

I want to put thes tapes to my pc and then edit en author them with pinnacle studio 8 (making the movie's like real movies) en then a menu with ulead dvd moviefactory 3 disc creator.

Hmm... author them..... Maybe my interpretation is wrong but isn't DVD Authoring part of the process when you take MPG file and you create VOB file ? DVD Menu is done before that. Maybe you ment editing and encoding with PS8.