default was at 6k er that is 6 mbits/sec (it displays it as 6000 but that's 6000 kilobits per sec, or 6 mega bits per sec -- unless i'm totally screwed up - i'm still a newb) So i've been playing with it, 10, 8... i was about to do 15 however it seemed a bit high, I do eventually want to get this onto a dvd, but first I just want a good solid copy that's pretty close the original clips as I can make them...

But we'll see how this current one is doing... I set it back to 8, VBR, however I chose the mpeg-2 media type instead of ntsc-dvd.

Keith