Best file format to copy old VCR Tapes onto DVDs.........

[Tc4]

I am getting a new TV tuner card(An ATI TV Wonder Card) for Xmas. I am going to plug it into my TiVo so that I can watch TV and be on the Net at the same time

But I need some help with something too. I am also getting a new DVD/VCR for Xmas and I need some info. I have some old VCR tapes that I want to copy onto my computer hard drive and then transfer to DVD so that when I pop them into the DVD, it will play like a regular DVD. There is one tape that has a mess of old 8mm home movies that my older brother had tranfered to a tape and also a tape of the 1991Washington Redskins Super Bowl season highlights that saving onto DVD is a MORAL IMPARATIVE!!!!

But the problem is that I don't have any idea what type file to use to make these playable on a DVD. Now the TV tuner card softwear has 4 video formats that files can recorded on:

1. ATI video
2. MPGE format
3. AVI format
4. Windows Media format

Now I also have a copy of Sony Sound Forge 7.0 that can let me work on the audio portion of the files, but will allow me to save any video files in a good deal of other video formats. But can anyone tell me what file type I can save these to do what I would like, to save them onto playable DVDs once I have copied them onto my hard drive?

[edDV]

Where to start, .....

... I can't think of anything easy enough. Read the tutorials here and ask again.

For DVD you will need Mpeg2 in DVD spec.

My older ATI AIW came with an older version of ULead Video Studio.
Let us know what comes in your package.

PS: the ATI TV Wonder Card won't come with what you need to make a DVD.
There are two paths from here. Buy a basic integrated DVD/video editing suite (Nero 6 ultra, Roxio-Sonic EasyDVD,MyDVD, etc.) or learn to use the the geekware described in this site.

[daamon]

Hi Tc4,

Capturing to AVI and then encoding that to MPEG2 (as edDV says is required) will take longer and requires more technical knowledge, but typically is generally accepted to yield better quality results.

Capture to DVD compliant MPEG2 and you're ready to author to DVD. Quicker, simpler but quality may suffer.

However you get your MPEG2s, they're gonna need to be authored to get your VOBs, IFOs and BUP files in a VIDOE_TS folder, accompanied (usually) by an enpty AUDIO_TS folder.