Video CD & MPEG

buzert wrote on 8/23/2001, 4:42 PM

I want my final project to be a video cd.When i use vagas video to edit i can save file as mpeg vcd but the video is blocky not very good rendering.It renders at 1123kbs kinda low so i try to move it to 1856kbs (the only other choice it gives)it renders but when i play file on computer it freezes sound goes but vid stops or jumps. Iv got a p3 933 with 512meg of ram so speed not it. I have done mpeg as hight as 2.5meg & works fine using a program called TMPEG.So you ask why not use that well once i got my editing all done i must save as somthing and all avi compresers that vages suports SUCK.So if i go uncompressed avi then 2.5min of vid is 1.4gigs. Also i am able to catch my vid as mpeg but have you tryed to edit mpeg with vages its jumpy & very hard to work with.

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 8/27/2001, 8:04 PM

I've accepted that there will always be a compromise in quality when using the 'included' compressors in Vegas, but the MPEG compressor that comes with Vegas is too high of a compromise in my opinion. It is really poor. Many people won't use the MPEG feature of Vegas so I think the solution is to have a fully featured ADD-ON mpeg compressor with ALL the features and quality of TMPGEnc (which is free by the way...)

I'd pay for that. Now that DVD burners are so cheap, MPEG-2 is much more important and Vegas would kick ass if it could integrate some specialized MPEG features into the timeline... like frame level markers representing forced I-frames.

To answer the question, rendering to DV is a good way to get footage out of Vegas and ready for re-compression by a good MPEG compressor like TMPGEnc.