Poor VCD quality- help !

jdas wrote on 2/18/2004, 8:06 AM

I am plaqued with having to put up with poor VCD quality. Currently I am using Vegas to produce PAL VCD. Is there an alternative way ? Can I get better results using other softwares ? Appreciate any suggestions.

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roger_74 wrote on 2/18/2004, 8:23 AM

The MainConcept codec in Vegas seems to do pretty good with NTSC VCDs, but pretty bad with PAL VCDs. At least when I evaluated it some time ago. TMPGEnc makes good looking VCDs.

Jsnkc wrote on 2/18/2004, 9:09 AM

Poor VCD quality- help !

Yup, that is what VCD's are. Poor quality! Not much you can do about that.

jdas wrote on 2/18/2004, 9:35 AM

Roger,

Do I render as AVI (uncompressed) ,just AVI or MPEG1 in Vegas before importing to TMPGenc ?

roger_74 wrote on 2/18/2004, 10:58 AM

Ideally you use Satish's frameserver. Install it and render to AVI - PluginPac FrameServer. Use the resulting .avi-file directly in TMPGenc.

jdas wrote on 2/18/2004, 4:24 PM

I'll test out the frameserver.Hopefully the result will improve with TMPGEnc. Thanks for your input,Roger

Chanimal wrote on 2/19/2004, 2:54 PM

I had a friend that said he was also getting poor vcd quality. He sent me an e-mail this morning and said he turned of "fast video resizing" and it was MUCH better quality. Might help.

jdas wrote on 2/19/2004, 3:38 PM

I'll try that option. Thanks