VCD doesn't look good on TV - How to...

[Videocritees]

I’m brand new at burning and all this. I’ve edited some sequences on Avid Xpress DV. I’ve output them to both AVI and WMVs. The WMVs look considerably better when burning to CD and viewed on TV. After the AVI’s are transcoded to VCD (I think is their compression) and viewed on TV, are heavily compressed and look very bad and blocky. I thought AVI’s were the way to go.

I have MyDVD 4, Nero Vision, Windows Movie Maker as burning software. Any suggestions or a better way?

When I try to burn to SVCD Nero Vision says I have to buy an SVCD/MPEG license. What’s up with that?

[kazzer]

Always use TMPEnc for high quality free AVI to VCD!

The NERO thing is referring to the MPEG 2 encoder. SVCD is MPEG 2 and you must purchase the MPEG 2 encoder to use with NERO.

[Videocritees]

Sorry for the dumb question but what's a "TMPEnc for high quality free AVI to VCD! " I'm unfamiliar with it. Is it an output setting somewhere?
Thanks for your help!

[kazzer]

TMPGEnc is a free (for VCD only, limited SVCD) video encoder that is easy to use and produces excellent results. This is what you can use to convert your AVI to MPEG (S/VCD)

[Videocritees]

Where can I get it?

[kazzer]

See the Tools section to your left.
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