Lossless DVD editing

I've been reading a lot of posts and wonder if I've got this right . . . . IT IS POSSIBLE to edit DVD without recompression loss by using Cinematize for the editing and then exporting the MPEG 2 clips to DVD Studio Pro for burning. If this is true, can I use DVD Studio Pro 2 or 3 for this?
Right now I have Mac the Ripper, MPEG Streamclip and mpgtx, which work for getting clips out of the DVD, but which need to go to iMovie for editing. This would cause a loss of quality because of having to be recompressed in iDVD.
I'd like to burn all my old (very old) home videos to DVD and edit at my leisure. However, I can't afford that many DV tapes.

IS POSSIBLE to edit DVD
without recompression loss by using Cinematize for
the editing and then exporting the MPEG 2 clips to
DVD Studio Pro for burning. If this is true, can I
use DVD Studio Pro 2 or 3 for this?
Yes. DVD SP accepts MPG-2 compressed clips (and so does Roxio's Toast), but neither are video editing programs.
Right now I have Mac the Ripper, MPEG Streamclip and
mpgtx, which work for getting clips out of the DVD,
but which need to go to iMovie for editing. This
would cause a loss of quality because of having to be
recompressed in iDVD.
I'm not sure you will see much effect from the decompression/recompression process as you are starting from home videos (VHS?) which is hardly 'film quality' to start with.

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I just forgot to add that to my recommendation.
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A while back, there was a discussion about iMovie and how it used/preserved data, the statement made at the time was:
iMovie 08 (and 09) uses 'single field processing' meaning every other horizontal line of the video is thrown out, which reduces the sharpness of the footage. iMovie 06 uses ALL of the image to form the video.
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Mee too! I'm very happy to have it here on my machine. It makes SUCH a difference.
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