Project -> SVCD. How?

strobe wrote on 12/18/2003, 9:44 AM
Hi!

Now I'm done with my 1 hour and 10 minutes Vegas Video project about my Thailand journey. This would be approx. 2 SVCD's (35 minutes each, right?)

Whats the best way to transfer my project to these 2 SVCD's? How to?

The only way I know now is to render it as AVI, import it in pinnacle studio in 2 big clips, each 35 minutes, and burn it that way. But there must be a better way! :)

please help // Alex (sweden)

Comments

kameronj wrote on 12/18/2003, 10:08 AM
SVCD format is MPEG2.

Render your files out to MPEG2.

Go to your favorite VCD burner and burn your project.
robycos wrote on 12/18/2003, 10:16 AM
First of all render the movie as MPEG, SVCD template.
Then what I usually do is to use VCDEasy (it is a free authoring SW that allows you to insert chapters, menus, extras). I think it works very well and it is very easy to be used. You can find it on the net, don't know exactly where, but likelihood in dvdrhelp.org there is something.
I hope this helps

Roberto
johnmeyer wrote on 12/18/2003, 11:05 AM
Render it with the MPEG-2 encoding, using the SVCD template (NTSC or PAL, depending on where you live). Then, use Nero, or similar burning software, to burn your SVCD CDs.
strobe wrote on 12/20/2003, 1:49 PM
Yup! I did it and it worked. I burned the rendered mpeg2 file with VCDEasy.

Just one thing, sometimes when a clip in the film contains very much small things, and the camera strafes, the picture get flickering...

Whats the reason for that happening? well-known problem?

Now I'm going to buy a License for VCDEasy . Thanks / Alex
farss wrote on 12/20/2003, 2:19 PM
Re your shaky images. You've just hit the limitations of the bitrate on VCD. You need to avoid scenes with too much motion, and having the whole frame move is a LOT of motion.
BTW, I've made quite a few VCDs and SVCDs. In my humble opinion TMPGEnc seems to do a better job than the MC encoder at these bitrates.

Another thing, the SVCD spec calls for CBR mpeg but I think if it's only to be played in DVD players you could safely use VBR and squeeze a bit more out of it. I've never tried this as my work was for VCD/SVCD players only,