Thanks for the info,
I will try the Prores LT and see what sort of filesize I end up with. If it is significantly smaller, I might be able to keep all the tapes in that format.
If I do have to compress once again, high quality H.264 as you suggested, do you think it will be edit friendly if I were to make other dvd’s in the future? I thought I had read H.264 was not very good to work with after it was encoded.
again thanks for the information