DV to VCD

[Jamst]

I'm trying to make VCD out of my DV (Digital-tapes (DCR-TRV330). I use MGI VideoWav to capture through IEEE1394. I found that I get the best quality when I save (produce) the clips in DV-format (smart-DV codec?) and then convert the DV by TMPGEnc. But the problem is DV files are very large and often the system (PIII-866) hangs(with some error message from TMPGEnc). I increased the VFAPI priority manytimes. sometimes it works but often it does not. Any suggestion or comment? Would it help if I increase the RAM?

Thanks

[heathcot]

Would need to see more info on your system setup to comment.

I do pretty much the same thing. Using a TRV330, capturing using Scenalyzer, editing with Premiere and then converting with TMPGEnc. Haven't had any trouble with hangups so far.

How big are the files you are trying to convert?

[omoses]

I do it this way: capture with AVI_IO into sgemented AVI-Files (700MB each, so I can backup the whole work on CD-RW), then I convert anything from DV to HufYuv, including filters , resize etc. and then opening that with tmpeg. That is faster than direct frameserving it from virtualdub, and all the filters work without problems. So I get denoised, resized and well working AVIs that I can convert to S-VCD in short time. If I use some filters in Virtualdub and Highest-Quality/2-Pass-VBR in TMPG, this is faster than direct frameserving. But you need a lot of hdd-space for it. A movie with 90minutes will take about 40GB in HufYuv, with a resolution of 480*576.