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Another quick comment: > 1) Make hi resolution DVDs as a promotional product for my touring and If by hi resolution you mean "high definition" or HD with 720 or 1080 scan lines, you will not see much if any quality difference rendering to HD if the input is a standard definition VCR tape. It might even make it worse because converting standard definition to HD requires "upscaling" and not all upscaling implementations are the same. Unless you are dealing with a service with really pro-grade equipment it is best to keep the transfer in the same resolution as the source. Typically you take in a VCR or camcorder tape and you get back a DVD ROM containing "avi" files. You then copy these files file onto your hard disk, load them up into a video editor and go to town. But note that you can't stick a DVD ROM into many consumer DVD players and have it play. If that is what you want you need to use DVD burning software such as Adobe Encore or Nero (or many, many others) to convert an avi file into the format that most DVD players require. If this is the end goal, then you can just ask the transfer service to put it in DVD-Video format. If you have the transfer formatted as DVD-Video and later decide you want to edit the video (or convert it to MPEG, see below), you have to get "ripper" software that will extract the video and audio from the DVD and convert it back into avi files. This is the same thing people use to steal, er "backup" commercial DVDs. > 2) Make lo resolution copies for streaming on my website and also at > YouTube.com. For this you would compress standard definition video, typically in an avi file into an MPEG file. The process is similar to converting a full resolution audio file into an MP3. Most of the commercial video editing software can do this. If you don't want to mess with doing this yourself, the transfer service can do it for an additional cost. Or you might be able to find a friend with video editing software that will do it for free :-) Jeff