Putting 85 minutes onto a VCD

OldTimer wrote on 8/17/2003, 8:45 PM
I have beeen asked by a friend to put a 85 minute film onto a VCD. I understand that a VCD's max time is about 82 minutes if you overburn. Rather than trim a few sceen I was wondering what would be the effect if I were to use the velocty envelope to take the entire project down to about 95% of it's original playing time.

The quality of VCD is usually poor to start with but if the entire project has to have every frame rendered is if going to get much worse? Question can a velocity envelope be put onto an entire project or only on individual events?

While I am thinking about changing playing time I thought that this might be a good time to ask a question that has occured to be before. Will some time changes give better results than others? For instance if the events time is exactly doubled or halved would a differant way be employed to process the changes since you could possibly have every frame twice or use only evry second frame?

Comments

farss wrote on 8/17/2003, 9:39 PM
I'm only guessing here but you'd have to think exact mulitples would give better results but then audio could become a big issue.

If your trying to make a fully compliant VCD your kind of stuck unless you can speed the thing up or split it across two disks. Mind you it may still fit, cost nothing to find out.

Render as mpeg1 for vcd and use Nero to author, it'll tell you if its going to fit before you burn.

VCD off good quality (read low noise) DV isn't that bad, for better results go to SVCD. You will not fit as much onto one disk BUT if you're only looking to play it in a DVD player you should be able to use VBR mpeg2 which will squeeze more onto one CD.

Again you could split it into two CDs. Media isn't exactly expensive and you can get nice jewel cases that hold two CDs.

Ros wrote on 8/18/2003, 8:09 AM
In Vegas 4, go to TOOLS, BURN CD, VIDEO CD. It will render it to mpeg1 and burn it to a CD.

The quality isn't that bad, actually it is quite impressive for VCD.