Video8 to SVCD via ??? (Dazzle+Nero, Dazz+??+Nero+??)

[klaatu2]

(I have a Dazzle II, Nero, an 866 Pentium 3, 512 meg)

I have seen posts of part of the trip from Super8 analog to SVCD, but the links aren't clear. Do I want to capture with the Dazzle at a higher res /bitrate than the SVCD template and then scale it back? Like capture at high bitrate MPEG2 and then use Nero to convert. Or just capture at the SVCD template level?? What gives the best results?

And with Nero, why do I need TMPEGEnc??

What settings should I use? Why does Dazzle grey out some of the options no matter what other selections are made in configuration?

[seedamin]

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Can't answer any of your questions about the dazzle. However, the last time I tried, the encoder in Nero did a piss poor job. Sound out of snyc, bitraye shortages...etc... If you want quality, use a real encoding program.

[bskousen]

I have the Dazzle II decoder and I must say it works great. I have done it both ways. I have captured my old betacam movies at mpeg II 5000k VBR which gives me an excellent copy. I then use TMPGEnc to generate an SVCD-compliant copy. I too didn't like Nero's rendered version. It was out of sync. I have found that TMPGEnc's rendered file was very good quality, but takes MUCH longer to create. Dazzle's decoder card will do it on the fly. Lately I have been making SVCD's (actually XSVCD'S) directly using Dazzle with a VBR of about 3700K, which works just fine for 1 hour TV programs with the commercials removed.