videostudio 9 setting for vhs?

[daniel]

Glad to see you're emerging, and I just wanted to stress again that DV encoding while it lowers the file size to approx. 1/5th, does not loose that much quality of the picture. So if your Canopus card does capture to that format I'd do it. Even with sufficient space that allows you to work on several cassettes concurrently and will (a little) accelerate rendering and editing due to lower memory requirements.

I would not capture in MPEG (again given you have the space, which is your case) since for the same throughput, let's say 4000Kbps, the algorithms will produce a much better result when they work five hours during rendering in quality 100%, dual-pass settings than if they have to do it real-time during capture. The usual difference between quick and dirty and slowly crafted masterpiece. MPEG on-the-fly should be reserved to situations where you just don't have the space to accomodate the DV data.

To be discussed again of course when we get that quad-processor 32 GHz computer sometimes later.