Capture for SVCD format, best resolution?

[Rebooter]

I have a Canopus ADVC1394 capture card. It only captures to uncompressed AVI (as far as I can tell anyway), so I have to render the capture to the target format, such as SVCD. My question is, what will give better results: capturing at 720 x 480, then rendering it down to 480 x 480, or try to capture at 480 x 480 from the beginning?

[ronnylov]

It can only capture to DV avi so you are locked to the DV resolution during the capture (720 x 480 in NTSC). You can convert to other resolutions and formats by using software after the capturing (or maybe realtime conversion by software).

So in your case ou have no other choice than capture 720x480 from the beginning. DV AVI is not uncompressed. It is a compressed video format with a factor of 1:5 if you compare it to uncompressed video.

[nasdravi]

hi,
i'd recommend to use Ulead Video Studio and capture straight to svcd.
There is a 30 day version at www.ulead.com

Every 40 minutes u capture (video vbr 2500, audio 224) you can burn to 80min cd with nero. No render/compress required

cheers!

[dike]

i'd tried ulead video studio, take my word it SUCKSS!!!!NO OFFENSE

[FulciLives]

It can only capture to DV avi so you are locked to the DV resolution during the capture (720 x 480 in NTSC). You can convert to other resolutions and formats by using software after the capturing (or maybe realtime conversion by software).

So in your case ou have no other choice than capture 720x480 from the beginning. DV AVI is not uncompressed. It is a compressed video format with a factor of 1:5 if you compare it to uncompressed video.

I agree. Just "capture" it as DV AVI which will be 720x480 NTSC or 720x576 PAL and then use a software MPEG-2 encoder such as TMPGEnc Plus or CINEMA CRAFT ENCODER (aka CCE) and do your resizing while doing the MPEG-2 encoding.

If you had a capture device that could easily capture at SVCD resolution then that probably would be fine but most of the time you are better capturing at Full D1 ... applying filters etc. ... then resize to SVCD.

So the Canopus ... captureing at Full D1 ... is "forceing" you to do it the better way anyways

- John "FulciLives" Coleman