very confused

[clothesburner626]

Captured with NeroVisionExpress3

Edited with Adobe Premiere 1.5

Double-clicked NeroSmartStart on desktop

Selected DVD from the Menu at the top (choice of CD/DVD - CD - DVD)

Scrolled over the Favorites Icon - Audio Icon - Data Icon

Selected Photo and Video Icon

Selected "Make your own DVD video"

Selected "Add Video Files"

Added the Video Files I'd edited with Adobe Premiere

Hit Next

Edited Menu

Previewed

Burned to DVD

Now, my confusion:

What's wrong with doing it this way?

What kind of quality am I losing?

I didn't have to dick with interlacing, de-interlacing, encoding, NOTHING!!!

I just dragged and dropped and burned - looked just as good playing on my television from the DVD as it did the video tape I pulled from (if not better).

Comments?

True, the menu was not as complex as I'd have liked but so far as the quality of the footage itself, good enough for me, and easy!!!

[canadateck]

Whats the question?If it works for you then great. What more can you say.

[clothesburner626]

If it works for you then great. What more can you say.

I'm interested in what the trade off is. Am I losing quality? Read something about de-interlacing that threw me off... read something else about encoding the audio separate from the video.

All I know is that the method I described above was super easy compared to "frame serving from one thing to another... encoding with this/authoring with that."

Thanks for your comment.