The Truth About SVCD

EArrigotti wrote on 12/25/2001, 12:17 AM
I was ecstatic to finally get my copy of VV3 today. It installed quickly and without a hitch.

The first thing on my agenda to try was making a SVCD. (SuperVideoCD). So, I put together a quick little home movie, went to the 'Render As' selection in the 'File' menu, and used the template for SCVD. Knowing that VV3 did not have the capability to burn an SVCD, I opened my Nero burning software that I got specifically for this task, selected the SVCD template, choose the file I had just rendered, and much to my surprise, it worked like a charm. I then popped it into my home DVD player, and it played it just fine.

So the crux of this is that yes, you can make an SVCD without buying the mpeg encoder for Nero simply by rendering it using the SVCD template in VV3. The reason I mention this is that I gave somebody the advice that they could download a trial version of Nero from their website, and another forum user replied that yes the Demo version is good for 30 days, and could render SVCD's, but it did not include the mpeg plug-in. The fact is; however, that the mpeg plug-in in unneccesary because you can render it from within VV3.

I am quite glad for the ease of the whole process, but am still a bit dissapointed at the quality of the final product, granted, I haven't tweaked with the settings at all. If I come up with a cleaner render, I'll let you good folks know.

Merry Christmas
Keep up the Creativity. It's good for us all.

Comments

billybk wrote on 12/25/2001, 8:26 AM
Thanks for the info about SVCD. I was thinking about getting Nero to burn SVCD's to play in my DVD player.
Glad to hear that the whole process works as advertised using Vegas and Nero. Concerned about the video quality though, but like you said, it could be a settings issue.

Billy Buck
tboydva wrote on 12/25/2001, 10:42 AM
There was a post earlier about converting MP3 music files to wav files to make the video render better... Sounds weird, but it works! I had an SVCD project that looked a little off in my DVD player. I converted the sound bed from mp3 to wav and reinserted. Looks perfect now?

Also, under the tools menu there is an option for burn CD. Use the multimedia option and you don't even need to use Nero - it'll burn it on the fly.

T