VHS to DVD back to WMV or AVI or MPEG or ?

[hillbie]

I'm totally new at this and don't really understand what I'm doing...

I'm not sure I've been doing this the most effective way, but it's been working (although time consuming). I have been converting my old home VHS movies by doing the following:

1. Copy VHS to Digital Video Cassette using my Digital Video Camera
2. Transfer to my computer using Adobe Premiere
3. Export using MPEG converter
4. Burn to DVD using Adobe Encore DVD

The quality using this strategy is great. I wish to could save the initial transfers, but I don't have the hard drive space. I've already created 20+ DVD's. So after each DVD burn, I delete the data.

Now I have DVD's that I want to use to make other DVD's by editing and making clips. So they need to be able to be accessed in Adobe Premiere.

How do I get the format back to be usable in Adobe Premiere? Will I lose quality? What are the settings and formats I want to use?

Thanks in advance,
Hillbie

[nelson133]

My first comment is that you seem to have gone through alot of work to get to where you want to be. If it works for you, OK. To copy DVD to DVD is very easy if your finished disks aren't copy protected, and I assume your's are not. You can use DVD Decrypter to copy your dvd to an .iso on your hard drive and then copy that .iso file back to a blank disk. Look under the mode menu and select read iso to copy to your hard disk. When you want to burn select iso write under the mode menu and the select the files to burn to the blank. There are guides with pictures that can be accessed from the menu on the left. Nyah Levi

[Abond]

Best transfer once again the digital cassete source.
Another might be to convert the DVD source to avi using lossless codec like Huffyuv, edit and export to MPEG - this last step will lead to some quality lose, but it is unavoidable.
Ah, BTW I don't know if Huffyuv avi is suitable for Adobe.