Need help will pay $

[mreed]

I am trying to accomplish distribution of vcd's that will play on pc 's via the cd-rom drive and open to a menu page that will allow the viewer to select different entry points or chapters within the vcd and then return to the menu page and select another entry point. I need help encoding to mpeg-1 and then setting up the autorun program. My source material is on mini-DV and is 20 minutes long.

Please let me know if anyone is interested in doing this and how much you would charge.

Thanks!

Mark

[vitualis]

If you are serious about this, you should probably go to a video mastering shop.

If you are interested in doing this yourself have a look at http://www.vcdimager.org for VCDs.

If you are interested in primarily a PC based platform, you should think of PC specific solutions rather than VCD.

Regards.

[mreed]

Thanks for your response Michael.

The biggest challenge I have is in creating the mpeg-1 files in tmpgenc. I need to have the best possible quality for this project which is mostly talking head stuff and is being distributed as a video brochure for a small business. I have been unable to get acceptable results in terms of quality and have been trying for the last 3 weeks.

Also what are my choices besides a VCD for the PC based platforms?

Mark

[jmproductions]

you can use DVDit to make a CDVD which puts the video on a cd mpeg-1 or 2. also it has a autolaunch player that it will put on the cd that will automaticlly start playing the mpeg-1 or 2 file. cyberlink powerdirector will do the same thing also.
Jimmy

[dprimm]

You are dealing with simular stuff that I have been researching. Need high quality video for playing on PCs. I have only briefly looked at the suggested VCD Imager, so I have not thought about it.

One suggestion to me (somewhere) was Bink Video. It appears this outputs a self-sufficient video so you do not have to worry about what codecs or computer stuff a person has or does not have. THAT is the biggest issue I have been dealing with. http://www.radgametools.com/

Let us know what you come up with. Please.
Thanks
David