DVD burning resolution (1 Viewer)

[Grant B]

I have been using Easy DVD creator 6 with awful audio results, After a long talk with CS they suggested I use MGI videowave for capturing because of of Compro Personal Cinema video card.
Much better results but a few questions.
When I tried inputting a LD with no compression @ 640 x 480 I max out my HD. So I tried lowering it to 352 x288 & used compression (MPEG 4 codec 1 I believe); I had Pixels the size of Scottie Dogs.
Without wasting a bunch of disc can someone help me out on the settings?
For MPEG 4: I can choose codecs 1 ,2 or 3.
What would be the resolution if I inputed vhs or LD?
Thanks everyone... I have learned alot but I still feel pretty dumb; there are so many variables

 

[Jeff Kleist]

don't capture uncompressed, don't capture in MPEG-4

Preferably capture in DV. Proper DVD res is 720x480 29.97fps

 

[Grant B]

Jeff
Thanks for the quick reply

Preferably capture in DV

I am not sure what you mean

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Well, unless you have 1GB for every 90 seconds of video, uncompressed isn't practical.

You'd need a hardware DV encoder, like a DV camcorder and a firewire card, or a standalone card like the Pinnacle DV500 to do what you want.

Your computer is not fast enough to do quality on the fly MPEG-4 encoding, probably not MPEG-2 encoding either. You need to capture to another format and then go to MPEG. Can you capture to MJPEG maybe? That's a decent codec