What is the BEST quality way to get SVCD from DV camcorder?

[Jerry Kaspar]

Hi,
already fighting with this for more than week!!! PLEASE HELP if you can.

Have a home video on DV camcorder .... via 1394 interface and Pinnacle Studio i got it into computer. I made a project and NOW a need to make a SVCD.

If I use a Pinnacle studio export - the result is very bad quality
So I made an AVI file (720x576 DV Video Encoder 25 fps) and tried to encode it in TMPGEnc to SVCD - better but not enought

So I use now CCE SP but it (I dont know why) doesnt load the AVI with wide of 720. So I made in Pinnacle Stud. AVI file (480x576 Cinepak Codek by Radius). ... CCE accepted it and encoded a testing file (2min. long) in very good quality. But when I tried to encode a whole movie (40 min. long and 4,5GB large file) it fall down after about 10% done

So finaly I found the GUIDE here (http://www.vcdhelp.com/avitovcdfoolproofusingcce/) but at point #8 a problem appears AGAIN!!! OpenMovieFile() failed (-2095)

What could I do?

Is anyone "friend" with CCE SP and knows how to make a quality home video SVCD?

Thanks for any help

Jerry

[EricB]

Jerry,

I get excellent results with TMPGenc using the standard SVCD template and changing the frame size to 352x480. If you haven't done this before, you load the standard template, then load unlock which allows you to change settings.

I do 99% of my work using DV and this xSVCD always performs well for me. Another advantage is that the 480x480 is not a recognized format for DVD but 352x480 is. All you have to do is convert (or leave if you're starting with DV) the audio to 48kHz.

[Jerry Kaspar]

I tried to encode it in TMPGEnc to 352x480 but it didnt help at all To be more exact: the main problem is, that there are so visible blocks in final format. Espacially when people are swiming in a sea ....

[banjazzer]

Capture your video with no compression.
Edit in Studio.
Export to tape (hopefully you have DV-in on your camcorder!)
Capture the edited video once again with Studio.
Use the TMPG SVCD template to convert to SVCD.

If TMPG will not accept the avi (this seems to happen with v.8 ) then convert the avi (losslessly) using Canopus DV File Converter.

By the way, SVCD is either 480x480 or 480x576, not 352x480. So maybe this is where your problem lies.? 8)

[Anonymous65]

Waves on water is the most difficult video to encode. A full screen shot of waves require a lot higher than 2.5Mb/sec for artifact free video. Try to add some temporal filtering to reduce the blockiness.