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Zeal for the convert.(Letter to the Editor)

By Marszalek, Joe
Publication: EMedia, The Digital Studio Magazine
Date: Friday, October 1 2004

After editing video as a hobby for over 15 years to VHS, I am finally going to move to DVD creation. Over the years I have made many encodings to MPEG-1, WMV, etc. Now that I am starting to convert my library of footage to DVD, what bitrate should I use? with my photo editing experience on PC, I know that there is a difference between scanning resolution and printing resolution. At a certain point you can scan too high where you aren't getting an improvement in quality but just wasting more disc space. In MPEG-2 encoding, what is the point at which I will preserve the quality of m