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Brodway wrote on 11/25/2002, 9:40 AM
Hi...
What is the best resolution that I should use when capture
a video from VHS to edit in Vegas and them make VCD ?
Should this uncompressed ?

Thanks
phonelover wrote on 11/25/2002, 10:09 AM
Hi,
You should render it by creating an .AVI file. The codec you have to select is DivX, but in this case I think you would take and the result will not be really good.
I suggest you to render the file as an MPEG file, and then, with programs like Vidomi or FlaskMpeg + VirtualDub, convert them into DivX.
For more information on how to do this, I suggest you to visit www.doom9.org.
PL
phonelover wrote on 11/25/2002, 10:10 AM
Converting a VHS video into VCD will give you very poor results... SVCD is better.
Anyway, capture at 352x576 from a VHS and de-interlace it, the quality is good enough. I have made tons of experiment and this is gthe best trade-off between quality and resolution which I have found.
Brodway wrote on 11/25/2002, 8:21 PM
Hi thanks a lot...
But a have one more question
When capture from VHS should I
capture compressed using Cinepack Indeo or unconpress
like 16bit555 or 16bit556
Brodway wrote on 11/25/2002, 8:23 PM
When reder to AVI it shold be compress ou unconpress ?
Unconpress makes a big file like 3 GB for 18 mim
is that correct ?
phonelover wrote on 11/26/2002, 8:01 AM
Hi,
I generally use HuffYUV codec, because it's very good and it's free. You can download it for free, but I don't remember the site name.
Another good encoder is MJPEG (also available by MainConcept).
Uncompressed format is not good because you'd need a too high file transer rate and you'd get a too long file. Indeo Cinepak will give you poor quality results.
phonelover wrote on 11/26/2002, 8:02 AM
Render it with MPEG, it's better. Or use AVI MJPEG...
Brodway wrote on 11/26/2002, 10:39 AM
Thank for all the info you release
to me. I belive that I can start
play around with my old videos