"You probably should have captured it at actual LD resolution though, your card should be capable of that, so I'd give it another go in you have another 30GB of disc space."

Ugh. I barely squeezed it onto my 250GB hard drive. Guess I'll have to move a few more things. I have to recapture anyways, since the brightness and contrast are a little off.

"What are you going to use to encode it to DVD-9?"

I wish. I don't have a dual-layer burner yet. It'll be awhile before I even consider it. Actually, considering how good the file looked at medium settings, especially with the small size, I'm not too worried about it.

"try capturing at 720 x 480 if you want it to look correct on the final DVD."

Will do.

(as soon as I figure out what is giving me problems on motion frames. I know it's an interlacing issue, but I'm trying to narrow it down to either top/bottom fields or 2-3 pulldown.)

Okay, here are some captures. What am I doing wrong here?

From my MPEG

Bottom field

http://home.netcom.com/~eandtc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pdvd_001.jpg

Top field

http://home.netcom.com/~eandtc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/pdvd_003.jpg

From my capture (consecutive frames)

http://home.netcom.com/~eandtc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/image1.jpg

http://home.netcom.com/~eandtc/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/image2.jpg

Now, according to Vegas, my capture has no field order (progressive). What should I do?