1. The Capture does not work, ever. Sometimes it completes, but the mpg has only a fraction of the DVD. And they crippled it anyway by no longer capturing from dvd files on a hard disk.2. If there is an easy way to edit out commercials from a video file, I can't find it.3. As far as I can tell, EMC ALWAYS re-encodes the video. So you either lose data from your original MPG, or waste space converting to a higher bit rate. Why can't it copy the MPG as is, it is really the same format as the DVD files anyway? TMPGEnc DVD Author does exactly that, it works great.The only thing I use EMC for is creating data discs, and it is not worth the price for that.