I have been sprodically converting irreplaceable home/family movies to DVD, so, after "back-burnering" the project for about a year or more, I'm trying to get into it again.

I am leaning towards using Vegas 4 (which we already own) for editing the AVI files and TMPGEnc DVD Author 1.6 for authoring.

I want to get about the highest quality I can out of these ~15-year old tapes and apparently an important step in that process is encoding the AVI to Mpeg2. Rather than buying another product (e.g., TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress or TMPGEnc Plus 2.5), will using Vegas 4's render-as command to encode to MPeg2 yield just as good (better?) quality?

Is there anything I can do at the encode stage about the jumpy frames in one of the AVI files, which was from a 1985 Beta tapes -- glad I kept one of my Beta VCRs -- used the Canopus ADVC100 w/ Vegas 4 for the capture.)

Thx much.