Capturing VHS-C footage: Will this method work?

Question

Ok, I'm new to the whole Video and Digital manipulation realm, but I wanted to run this by everybody before I tried it out.
Two questions:
1. Would this work:
- Capturing at DVD quality (I mean, it's VHS-C tapes, not exactly IMAX level stuff)
2. I'm using my S-VHS player and my DV player as a bridge to my computer. Which of these two is better/higher quality (or either I guess):
         a. Plug my s-video into my vcr and dv player, then usb into my computer, then capture that video using the dv camera as a bridge
          OR
          b. S-video into my dv and vcr, capture the footage onto my DV camera, then import that captured footage from the DV camera.

Answer 1

If you are passing the video through your DV camcorder using AV-DV option, the camcorder is converting the AV to DV, the camera would do the same if you were recording that input to tape.  Either way it is DV.  When you capture DV via Firewire, you are capturing a stream of binary data that meets the DV IEEE1394 standard.  It makes no difference if the stream comes from the pass-through, or from recording to tape first and then capturing the tape.  There is no change in quality loss between the methods.  Recognize however, the source was only VHS and the DV copy by either method can't be better than the VHS.
As for USB, I do not believe that Premiere pro can capture a USB input, the Premierr pro miniDV/HDV option is only for IEEE1394 capture.
Your USB connection may be passing through a camera-specific utility and being recorded as a AVI file on your HDD.  You then have to import that file to Premiere using the project panel