Capturing VHS to put it on DVD

[mlink]

I'd like to put my old VHS tapes to DVD format. I have Pinnacle Studio Deluxe AV/DV capturing card, with Studio 7 software. Unfortunatly I can't change capturing settings-video size, quality and compression. Tthey are defalut (video size is 720x576 and compression is DV). As I know VHS must be captured at lover video size for best results. I resize it with VirtualDub to 352x576 and 480x576 and frameserved it to TMPGenc but my DVD authoring sofware (Sonic My DVD) does not accept encoded video file. What video size and display format settings should be used in TMPGenc I use 720x576 - 4:3.

Thank you for advice!

Miha

[Anonymous65]

You can capture VHS at any resolution you want. I would suggest 352x576, but 720x576 is also fine, it just takes up much more space. Also, there is no need to resize. Tmpgenc will resize to any size you want when it encodes the file to your format, be it DVD, VCD or SVCD.

So, simply capture at the format you can do, and send the file to Tmpgenc for encoding. Author the mpeg file and burn to a DVD.
( I would suggest 352x576 @ 4Mb/sec video and 224Kb/sec audio. This will give you over 2 hours per DVD disk. If you need 3 hours per disk, then use 3Mb/sec video)

[therick]

"I would suggest 352x576 @ 4Mb/sec video and 224Kb/sec audio. This will give you over 2 hours per DVD disk"

Isn't that a little overkill? I just did Raiders of the Lost Arc last night from VHS to XSVCD with 352x480 @ 2 Mb/sec...and it is the best VHS conversion I have ever done. I was really proud of myself....

not trying to start a quality argument, skittle...actually have a question that you can answer for me. I am big into using AVISynth for IVTC and setting the flags with pulldown...I love the quality increase...my question is...everytime I see the DVD spec it says 352x480 interlaced...does my stream count? The flags technically make it 29.97...right? Does it make it interlaced? I am confused about this...