[vincent vega]

I'm capturing video from a Sony Handicam digital 8mm camcorder via firewire. The desired end result is to get all of this put onto DVDs. That being said, for DVD quality purposes, should I be capturing to DV or MPEG-2?
Thanks.

[james_hardin]

Yes!

DV AVI uses no compression, is easier to work with in the editor but creates huge files!

Thus it is capable of the highest quality potential…

MPEG-2 will be compressed, uncompressed and compressed again every time you dabble with it. The files are smaller but because of all the compressing/un-compressing long video clips tend to bog down in the editor.

The 'quality' should be less, in theory, but I have never met anyone who can honestly see a bit of difference on a TV at 12 feet…

Try both and see which one works for you.

[vincent vega]

Thanks for the quick response. Will try both to see.