Maybe someone can help me (V Green?)

I have a Winnov videum  1000Av  in my PC and want to capture 90min PAL
Hi8 tapes to hard disk, then tidy up in PE3 and burn to DVD.

After reading a recent post it looks like I will have to capture in
4Gb chunks due to the driver limitations.  

I have the following questions...

1)  What compression  ratio setting should I use in the Videum driver
- wnv1 hardware compression , so that I get the best quality. Or do I
just leave it at 1:1 and allow lots of disk space?

1.5) what audio compression should I use?

2) assuming i have a number of chunks captured, how do I put them all
together, do I just load each one into PE3, or some other 'joining'
software ?

3) When I have made edits in PE3 do I save the file as an AVI then run
something else to compress it for DVD ussage, or should PE3 compress
it?  

Sorry if these are noob type questions, butthat is what I am , and
after searching for answers, have just got more confused ;-)

thanks for any advice.

Blonkster


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