I've been trying to rip movies of my son's soccer games to DivX, so that I can put them on CD-R for other Soccer-Dads to watch. So far I've been able to capture the games from tape to HD as .AVIs (12+ gigs per game), and convert those .AVIs to DivX. But the problem is, the picture quality degradation is pretty bad. I've seen DVDs processed by DivX and put on CD-Rs with acceptable quality reduction, so I know it can be done. My DVCam is a Sony TRV-230, and the picture is nearly commercial broadcast quality when I send the signal to the TV via SVHS cable. Does anyone know how to do this properly?

Using Adobe Premiere 6 to capture and Dr. DivX 1.02 to process the .AVI to DivX.

Thanks, DB