Video Editing Help

Can someone direct me to a website that helps with video editing? More specific, the diffrences between saving an old anlog vhs - c tape to your hard drive in mpeg forma. When I convert this to a avi file (dvd), do I lose quility? Or should I save the original file to a avi file? The reason I am savving my old movies to a mpeg format is because it saves a ton of hard drive space. But on the other hand, I do no want to lose any quility when I burn them into a dvd.

Can anyone help,

Thanks a ton,
Cob

 

I am using Pinnacle 9 plus for my software.

 

www.afterdawn.com

Another option is make VCD, I have copied some VHS to VCD, using video capture card (pci) & windows XP moviemaker, copy appears to be as good as original.

You may also want to post this in the software section, might find some help over there.