SVCD Problems Cont.....

PhilinCT wrote on 12/28/2002, 3:47 PM

Ok, I rendered my timeline again, this time besides selecting just Mpeg-2, (thought their was only one kind, I also selected the custom option of SVCD 480x480,& checked the fit to fram box. After the render finshed their was a error message saying an error of unkown type occurred. I disconnected my DSl and tried again, same error message..... File does play in XP's media player, although it looks a strange withthe 480x480 size. I then opened the file in Uleads Movie factory, where it tells me the file is not compliant with SVCD format and needs to be re-rendered?

I have added all the updates to Movie factory, and checked out most of the boards that fellow VV3 users have suggested, but I am still very confused with this whole process, Can't their be a simple way to convert DV to SVCD and DVD?

While I am dumping, why can you only fit slightly over an hour on a DVD that I make, yet 2-hour plus movies come on DVD?
Phil

Phil

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JJKizak wrote on 12/28/2002, 6:37 PM

In answer to your last question, commercial DVD discs are 8.6 gig
dual layer while the discs we use are 4.7 gig single layer. Even still
if you use the default MPEG2 variable bit rate you can just maybe squeak out
2 hrs. on a disc. Quality will suffer and if you convert the 48kc pcm
to AC-3 you will cut the sound file in half providing a bit more room on
the disc. SVCD is not my bag but it is fairly new and few applications
are around that can burn it. Vegas burns excellent VCD's directly from
the tool menu. SVCD's seem to be extraordinarily sensitive to bitrate settings.
That's all the info i can give.

James J. Kizak

Lawrence wrote on 12/29/2002, 12:58 PM

The SVCD support only 44.1 mhz audio.
This maybe the reason that Ulead Movie Factory need to render.

My suggestion is that you render to DV avi and let ulead Movie factory do
the conversion to SVCD. UMF do a pretty good job on SVCD and give v good
quality SVCD.

Lawrence wrote on 12/29/2002, 1:01 PM

PhilinCT wrote on 12/29/2002, 5:32 PM

Thanks, I am upfront that I come from "tape" and disc based distribution is something I am just trying to transition too. I have successfully made a VCD from the timeline, but I found the quality far below a straight VHS dub from the timeline, plus my brand new DVD player would only let me play the program from the head, jumping ff or RR around the disc only brought me back to the beginning.

Phil

JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/29/2002, 6:16 PM

Phil,

I’ve made SVCD’s from the VV3 timeline using the SVCD NTSC settings for MPEG2 and have had no problems burning it with DVD Movie Factory without having it complain or re-encode it. I can’t imagine what you’re doing wrong.

Take a look at the SVCD template in DVD MF and make sure the template in VV3 matches the dimensions and bit-rates. It does on my system but I’ve since upgraded to DVD MovieFactory 2 so I can’t test on the original DVD MF. It should work.

~jr