Stan,
How does it look? Well, first of all, it is home movies that were originally shot on 8mm film (without sound) by household amateurs back in the 1960's. That means very bad lighting, bad image quality, mostly blurry, and no attempt at composition. You take that as the original 8mm film that was handed off to a service agency that probably used an old Bell&Howell projector with a CCD capture cap over the projector lens for the 8mm-to-DVD conversion. More image quality loss.
Then we have multiple transcoding stages to get from Original DVD-to-Encore Modifications-to-DVD with subtitles.
So how does it look now? Well, Garbage in, Garbage out. It was my intent when starting this project to keep the number of transcodes to a minimum to reduce the image degradation. Like making copies of copies on a copier machine. At this point, I would say that the image quality would be subjective.
I don't understand this question:
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For no more authoring than you appear to be doing, will one of your other apps (that will accept the files you have) create a disk?
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I have already used Encore to create the menus, chapter index menus, chapter marks, subtitle sync, etc. Many hours have already gone into this. Is your question suggesting that I use another app other than Encore to do this? I already have way too much work invested in this to change gears now.
I used VideoReDo Plus with all of the default settings, but it had several that I wondered if they applied to this issue. Am I using VideoReDo Plus with the correct settings?
