> SO, now my question, anyone that did dvds/vcds for "the work" "white
> room" etc... if you did it from a vhs, what steps of capturing,
> encoding, etc did you use to get into mpeg2?
 
Primarily I've been recording onto my DV camera and then firewire onto the PC.  Now that I have a fast machine I will be converting all my laserdiscs and VHS tapes to DVD and will be hooking up a VCR to the PC.  Not sure how that will work yet.  My camera also allows a pass thru : vhs-dv-pc without having to record.
 
The drawback of using DV is that it saves as avi.  So 1 hour is 12gb of data.  When I was editing last years home movies down to a 35m film I had six tapes to store, then to encode and reencode as I tested and reedited stuff, then the dvd folders which were 4gb alone  Damn near 100gb just for that project.  So glad when I was finally able to delete that folder!
 
-paul