Capturing Settings for Non-Encoded Videos

[Superstar]

I'm confused about my notes on this subject so I wanted to double check it..

For videos that I am NOT going to encode, I'm just going to capture them, and then take them straight into Workshop, and make them into a DVD.

In my capturing program, WinTV, should I make the settings as follows -
Variable Bitrate 3900 (these numbers are just examples)
Bitrate Peak 4900

Video Resolution - 352x480, or should it be 720x480? I have both wrote down, and that's where I'm confused. At first guess, I would think it would be 352x480 since I won't be encoding them, but I wanted to double check.

Audio- 256

[Superstar]

Still need this answered, thanks.

[kpmedia]

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In my capturing program, WinTV, should I make the settings as follows -
Variable Bitrate 3900 (these numbers are just examples)
Bitrate Peak 4900

Those bitrates are in the "superbit" range, if used with 352x480. It's very high, meaning the picture should be fairly artifact-free from most sources. You're looking at about 2.5 hours, using those settings.

If you did that with 704x480 or 720x480, then your video would be very blocky. That is a very high compression, a low bitrate allocation. Not good for 720x480.

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Video Resolution - 352x480

Definitely 352x480, yes.

Remember that this topic is covered on the introduction to capturing and encoding video near the bottom of the article.