digitalFAQ.com Forum - Current 2020 workflow for going to DVD?

It's 2020, and DVD is now a legacy format, so the processes for it are also legacy.

There's really nothing "new" in terms of software to capture, encode, author, burn.
Or for hardware, meaning DVD recorder.

Method depends on source.

For example, my hobby, master VHS/S-VHS tapes of Cartoon Network, USA, Toon Disney, and others, all exceptional quality. But, of course, even quality VHS has flaws, mostly in timing and chroma. TBCs fix timing, but chroma often overrides NR/TBCs. When encoded to lossy formats (MPEG for DVD, or H264/DivX/H265 etc for streaming), to noise looks even worse as artifacts. So for this, I just use JVC LSI based DVD recorders. JVC S-VHS VCR > Cypress TBC > JVC LSU recorder. And done (for capture). Decompile recording with DVD Decrypter on computer, edit with Womble (MPEG lossless editing) to remove commercials or unwanted footage, re-author, done.

For pretty much everything else, standard capture in VirtualDub with AIW/etc cards, editing/restore as needed (both audio and video, mostly SoundForge and Avisynth+VirtualDub), encode to MPEG with MainConcept Reference/TotalCode, author, burn.

The alternative to MainConcept payware is Avidemux version 2.5 (not 2.6/7/etc).

Authorware has always been mostly 2 styles. You have complicated engineer/CAD type interface, PITA to use, like DVDLab or Adobe Encore, up to expensive things like Scenarist. Or you have dummy-friendly things like TMPGEnc with truly fugly mostly-uncustomizable menus. Ulead DVDWS2 was one of the few apps to truly blend a user-friendly GUI with advanced features and menu creation abilities. It works fine in an XP VM, or in WinVista/7 (probably 8/10) without audio preview.

Imgburn still go-to for burning, but beware of later version that have PUP/spyware attached.

This has been my method for at least 10 years now, and probably will not change in the next 10. Nothing newer is better, when something newer even exists.