What is the best resolution to capture at?

[Daveb]

I have a few 8mm(?) analogue camcorder tapes (PAL) I'm trying to record onto VCD as I have a DVD player that will (theoretically) play them.

I've read the guides here on capturing and looked at the stuff on interlacing and the question I have is this:

Do I need to capture at greater than 352x 288 and then de-interlace the AVI before encoding to Mpeg1 if I'm going to play the resulting VCD on a TV?

Will I get a better quality image if I capture at 720 * 576?

[Anonymous65]

If you want to make a VCD, capture at 352x576. Then let Tmpgenc resize, deinterlace and convert the AVI to mpeg-1.

If you want to make a SVCD, then capture at 480x576. Encode in interlaced mode to mpeg-2 with Tmpgenc.

[Daveb]

Thank you!

Edit: Having downloaded and run it and also had a look at

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgencexplained.htm

is the way to deinterlace to use the filter under advanced? If so, which method is the best?

Is the resize automatic?

[Sulik]

The best resolution depends heavily on the bitrate you're going to encode at. A rough estimate:
1.0-1.3Mbps (VCD): 352x240
1.3-1.8Mbps: 320x480
1.8-2.5Mbps: 352x480
2.5-4Mbps: 480x480
4-6Mbps: 640x480
6+Mbps: 720x480

(240/480 is for NTSC, 288/576 for PAL)