At the behest of my own inexperience and the interest of a few members here I have started and completed my first test disc.

I captured "just" the 3 SE trailers and the mini-doc from my U.S. 1997 LD set with the intention of honing my understanding of the process and creating a singular disc with just these features on it.

Virtualdub and TMPGEnc are the programs I'm using to do this with. I finished the first disc with a basic menu and found that the Cinema2 setting on my LD machine did indeed keep the blacks but the picture is a little dark so I am trying some different settings with TMPGEnc 3XPress to get a better picture for the second test disc.

This foray has shown me that I can get a nice straight capture using the ATI capture card with no extra processing through Virtualdub. Doing a whole movie will mean a bit more effort but in the end I at least have the ability to do so.

It's a start...........