I have found that too....so what is the best software to capture, edit and produce a good DVD from a camcoder (digital). I do NOT like Ulead it is the most unfriendly I have ever used and audio is tinny, MGI has sync problems with no update or new version as it was bought by Roxie and it appears they have no entention of doing anything but dumping it, and glorifing there cd burner software program.

I am talking full 720 X 480 res. of course, DVD as simple as VHS. Is the new DVD recorders the answer...Panosonic, Pioneer.

Why are these not taking off espiecially in Canada? I heard news that in the USA VCR will no longer be avail. in stores after Christmas.

Any one with so basic help to tweek home video before we get start on DVD ripping?

Well, you don't need just software. You will also need a capture card of some kind. Maybe if you have a firewire connection you can directly transfer the video to your PC,
but usually people need a capture card to get it to the PC. http://www.vcdhelp.com has reviews of various capture cards. Each one has people who love it and hate it. This forum has a lot of ATI users. I use the Dazzle DVC II myself. I love the DVC II, but some people do have problems with it. The DVC II also comes with it's own editing program. ATI cards do not.

MPEG2VCR (http://www.womble.com) is an excellent MPEG-1/2
editor. It is not perfect. I find sometimes when I use it to demux that it generates garbage in the output video stream. If I remember correctly, if you try to use it on widescreen footage (16:9) you may have problems.

It's not true that VCRs will not be sold in the US after Christmas. Where did you hear that? VCR sales are declining and video renter Blockbuster is scaling down it's VHS rentals in favor of DVDs. In fact, they may at some time soon stop renting VHS tapes. However, people in the US will certainly be able to buy VCRs for years to come. DVD recorders and DVD writers have not penetrated enough into the marketplace to replace the VCR yet.

OK...If you are transfering DV to your Computer then i would Sudgest useing "Adobe Premier" to capture the DV to your Hard drive and then you can use it to do any Number of effects and transitions to give your movies a more professinal feel and edit out any parts you don"t want..and the New premier doesn"t make you Re-render your project after adding effects and editing before you can export it to your Favorite Mpeg encoder...Then there are any number of Mpeg encoder plugins for Premier Like CCE or ProCoder Or Logos..I would Sugest CCE or Procodec but procoder is Quite Slow compared to Other encoders....