CapableMetal, don't worry, I didn't take it as a negative critic, but a comment about the sound you have the right to do.

I also thought to compress the tracks at 640kbps, but I know there are few DVD players that "don't like" AC3 tracks at that bitrate... maybe the next time I'll convert them so, but for the moment, 448kbps is the right compromise - in a dual layer DVD, thay take about 1.8GB, and leave just the empty space for a decent video compression for AVCHD...

For the DVD, I don't know if I must use the tracks as they are, or use a lower bitrate to leave more space for the MPEG2 video - but maybe compressing at 7400kbps, the quality of MPEG2 @ 720x432 will be the same than I used for the AVC @1280x544, if not better, don't you think?

@ilovewaterslides: thanks for the offer, but I'll make them myself soon.

still "only" 23 hours of compression... after that, I must find the way to make the subtitles work!

I viewed briefly the test video done yesterday, and - as I suspected - some dropouts are still present... next version, I'll capture any laserdisc two more times with different laserdisc players (I have only the benefit of choice); then use the TOOT to eliminate dropouts... maybe as I have four captures, I could do this right now: stating that a,b,c,d are the four aligned captures, I could TOOT a,b,c, then TOOT b,c,d, then TOOT a,b,d, THEN a,c,d, and use them as the four starting point for median and average instead the pure captures...