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My wife and I have decided that we need to convert our old VHS and S-VHS tapes to DVD (especially our home movies and wedding video). It's not something I've done before, however, so I'm looking for any tips/recommendations you guys can give me.

My media box (running Vista Home Prem x86) has a DVD burner and tuner/capture card (ATI Theater 650 HD), but I'm inexperienced with video editing/burning beyond a few minutes poking around in WMM.

Any tips on software for this task? I don't need lots of features - generally, I just want to make sure there's as little video quality loss as possible when I do this.

(And, yes, I've looked into local companies who do this stuff. Too expen$ive, plus I enjoy doing these things myself.)

My brother has a SAMSUNG he swears by…

Just don’t use Roxio if you decide to use your computer. (that’s the best I can do, on that)

Probably the best place to ask is the doom9 forums: http://www.doom9.net

Check this software out, they do have a trial version for d/l.

I've been using the Sony Vegas software to edit the raw files for DVD burning. It seemed to have all the nice features and different file formats needed to do easy editing and authoring. That is until the laptop died that I was using for the capturing process. We had a cheap PVR hardware dongle with it's own software installed on the laptop to transfer the raw video to the computer hard drive and then used the Vegas software to edit and author.