Video Editing N00B with VS X4 Pro Issues

[drive2quik]

So... Hello everyone,just thought I would ask for help before I pull my hair out... I am trying to transfer a analog video from a VHS tape player built into a TV to a digital format file, then I am to take the files and build a DVD out of it... the problem I am having is that when I capture the video, not all of the video records to the digital file on my hard drive. Sometimes I loose 15 at the front, or 15 at the end (never in the middle) sometimes and hour, sometimes 45 min. I need to be able to capture all the VHS video into one file so I can parse it up and edit it how I want, but I am baffled.

MY VHS player is an Admiral TV/VCR combo with a 13" screen
My capture card is an ASUS EHC3150 using the red,white, and yellow input cables
Software is Visual Studio X4 Pro ver. 14.0.0.342

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Ken Berry]

Did the Asus card come with its own software? We usually recommend using that software since VS does not work directly in capturing from many capture cards. Moreover, the software which comes with the card is usually tweaked to work with the card. So the idea is to capture with that software, and open the video in VS for editing. Hopefully, you will be capturing using DVD-compatible mpeg-2 as the capture format.

[drive2quik]

Yes it came with it's own software. I will try the native ASUS software and then edit and build DVD in VSX4. Also, I just updated VSX4 to ver. 14.2.0.23, so I may try again with the updates too if I have problems with the native ASUS software.

What is the issue with format's? If I go MPEG-2 and convert to MP4 or just with MPEG-2? The files are huge so I what to be able to fit them all a single DVD... I convert to shrink them down to a more efficient format. Your comment's on this?

[skier-hughes]

A dvd-video disc HAS to use Mpeg2 files.
You could make a data dvd and burn the mp4 files to it.
This would only play on mp4 compatible machines.

An hour of high quality video will fit on a dvd in mpeg2.

To get longer on, you can reduce the bitrate used to compress the file and get around 2 hours of video on before you notice any real degradation from a video source.