I am doing a preservation project of all my analog video-camera recordings of the past. Thing is, though the source is already of poor quality, I am totally obssessed about not loosing anymore quality due to capturing - encoding. So I ended up with some massive uncompressed files that take more than 400 GB of space.
Can anyone help me and suggest which is the best way to encode to mpeg2? I've read many threads where you people did multipass encodings that took years to complete, but I cannot find any mpeg2 encoder that isn't at least dissapointing qualitywise. I don't care if the encoding proccess takes 3 months, I just want the best result possible.
Any suggestions?
By the way, I'm on PC, but Mac suggestions are also wellcome (who knows, I might end up buying a mac to do my job)