Crom00, It's good to see you and others point out that not all is DIDO in 2010. Some of you may know my background is in video editing and DVD authoring and only this year I lost work due to not being able to get hold of a 2" player quick enough. Analogue will still be required for many years, many old film spools sit in garages around the world discarded until rediscovered (some of them well known titles too). I've made some good cash digitally remastering martial arts and porn movies, they all came off analogue sources and all ended up on DVD afterwards.
As for the doubters of this bounty, well if we end up with a decent OS4 video editor and someone else is paying the bounty, what's to complain about? If it fails it doesn't hurt me and if it works out I'll jump for joy.
Thanks bounty backer, whoever you are, I wish you luck.
Now, any chance of an OS4 DVD Maestro clone? I can but hope.