Thanks, Jeff and Kevin.
I neglected to post the purpose of my task. My client has recorded family tapes over the years and wants both an archive on DVD of each tape as well as an editible video file of each tape which will live on a server. I hoped I could manage this by capturing whole tapes and exporting each of them to (1) a self contained quicktime movie and (2) DVDSP. I wouldn’t make shorter clips at this point because any editing will be a project they will do later.
This brings me to a second question… In the past I have had problems accessing what I thought were self contained quicktime movies. Do they have to keep their render files as traveling companions?