So... your not against HD footage... you crave HD footage... so you're using a copied DVD? Wtf. Do you not get it? There is NO reason NOT to use the best quality footage possible. Seriously. WHO wants to watch an edit based off of clearly inferior source footage when there are so many HD edits around? Anybody?
And I find it IMPOSSIBLE to believe that you could even come CLOSE to making these changes when you don't even understand the very basic concepts of video quality.