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  1. Thanks for helping me out to kick up my capturing and converting to a
    640 x 480 NTSC format. It worked! And yes, you probably saw this posted in alt.video.desktop. Sorry...

    I am now trying to edit the now finished 640 x 480 NTSC mpeg
    and VCDEasy tells me that this is not a supported NTSC resolution!

    Being new at this, can someone *please* tell me exactly what
    resolution a video has to be captured in VDub and converted to in
    TmpgEnc in order to author it in VCDEasy?

    Does it have to be 480 x 480 in order to author and burn a VCD? Not
    Divx or SVCD, just VCD.

    Thank you,

    Aimee
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  2. It has to be 352 x 240 to be a standard complient VCD. I know this is a big drop in quality so maybe you should consider making a SVCD. The resolution for a SVCD is 480 x 480 so it would turn out way better.
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  3. Sure sounds that way! I will check SVCDs out. For verification though, even if my DVD player won't support the format, my PC will, correct?

    Thank you again!
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  4. And if you wanted it to be even better, what you do is you could leave it at 640 x 480 and open TMPGEnc and go to MPEG Tools, select your movie as both the video audio file, save the output file wherever, but at the top make sure to select "MPEG-1 (standard VCD)". Then click start. It will take a few minutes and it will give you a file that when played, will look the exact same as the origional file, but you will be able to burn it as a complient VCD with no quality loss!!! I havn't tried it with VCDEasy, but I know it works with Nero, so it should work with VCDEasy, and if not then just use Nero. Also, it will work on any DVD player that supports VCD, even ones that don't support SVCD.
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  5. Well, that's part of my problem if I understand your stategy. I am trying to preserve the original 640 x 480 capture res and save it as an mpeg-1 file... but when I go to VCDEasy, that's when it gives me an error saying that 640 x 480 is a not a valid NTSC resolution. SO... I am now trying to create a SVCD instead, especially since I am trying to capture a TV series on SVCD or VCD which are approximately 45 minutes long each with commercials edited out.

    My new problem is: capturing the video at 480 x 480... this is not the original format of the source, so it appears vertically "stretched." I read that the solution to this is to add 7 pixels of border to the left and right of the frames. My question is:

    What software do I use to accomplish this? I don't want to bother with the process if the picture looks abnormally formatted!

    Thanks!

    Aimee
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  6. you can encode in any of these resolutions: 720/704/640/480/352x480 and the aspect will look near identical when displayed on your tv. adding 7pixels to each side will just distort the aspect ratio slightly. if you are capturing from vhs i recommend 352x480; if broadcast tv 640/480x480. be aware that only 480x480 is strictly svcd compliant. you should really do more reading on the subject before you do too much work as there is quite a lot to consider
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  7. Oops. Forgot to mention, in reference to Jim E's post up there... I don't have Nero. I was using VCDEasy because it meant no more investment in software as I have already expended quite a bit to upgrade my hardware to accomplish what I am trying to accomplish.

    And in reference to stanwebber's post... do you mean 352 x 480 or 352 or 240?
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  8. 352x480: horizontal x vertical
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  9. I wonder how many DVD players support 640x480? It is not part of the DVD standard. DVD resolutions are 352x240, 352x480, 704x480, 720x480, (480x480). Mpeg-1 only supports 352x240.
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  10. i notice some adult discs have scenes encoded 640x480. my sampo dvdplayer letterboxes them horizontally(black bars left/right); other players handle them fine
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  11. Let me just ask one more question. Either I'm not understanding the reading material online or I'm misunderstanding the posts in this forum, but the following is still not clear to me:
    If I capture and encode a video at 480 x 480 which is SVCD compliant resolution, if I play this back on my PC, the picture will appear vertically stretched, right?
    If I play it back on a regular TV (which I cannot do now because my computer is my only available entertainment setup at the moment), will the picture be formatted to look normal or will it still look vertically stretched?

    Thanks...
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  12. Originally Posted by Zoobeast
    If I capture and encode a video at 480 x 480 which is SVCD compliant resolution, if I play this back on my PC, the picture will appear vertically stretched, right?
    If I play it back on a regular TV (which I cannot do now because my computer is my only available entertainment setup at the moment), will the picture be formatted to look normal or will it still look vertically stretched?
    if you use your DVD player software to display a "full screen" image, the 480x480 picture should stretch to fill the whole screen.

    On a TV set the whole screen will be filled, too.

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  13. Thanks! That's exactly the info I wanted!
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    Originally Posted by Zoobeast
    Thanks for helping me out to kick up my capturing and converting to a
    640 x 480 NTSC format. It worked! And yes, you probably saw this posted in alt.video.desktop. Sorry...

    I am now trying to edit the now finished 640 x 480 NTSC mpeg
    and VCDEasy tells me that this is not a supported NTSC resolution!

    Being new at this, can someone *please* tell me exactly what
    resolution a video has to be captured in VDub and converted to in
    TmpgEnc in order to author it in VCDEasy?

    Does it have to be 480 x 480 in order to author and burn a VCD? Not
    Divx or SVCD, just VCD.

    Thank you,

    Aimee
    You'll best preserve your original capture like this, but it may be slightly windowboxed when played back on a TV. This is because computer pixels are square while NTSC pixels are not.

    a) Encode at 704x480 (DVD D1 broadcast resolution, and valid)
    b) TMPGenc video arrange method: CENTER

    That should do the trick.
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