Good Template

[ssjdominic]

Im converting xvid/divx to svcd and was wondering whats the best template/method to convert a 90 min movies to one cd to get the best possible quality mainly picture cause its a movie heavy on dialog so i dont need super good sound. The other question is do it have to be encoded in vcd to get it to fit on a 80min cd, or can i encode it in svcd

thanks alot for any help and Merry Christmas

[Umen Pich]

90 min is not so much, especially having in mind that it is mainly dialog.
So you can use just the normal template. Another option I would recommend is kwag's templates which you can download from the "tools" section. But for 90 min and no rapid motion there will not be any noticeable difference, I think.
So basically you first use the bitrate calculator, see what must be the bitrate for 90 min to fill up a 80min CD. For the sound -- 96kbps, or even less will be ok.
Then start TMPGEnc, choose "variable 2-pass", put your bitrate value for the average. For the higest value put 2600, and for the sound -- choose mono, 96kbps, or less (whatever you already put in the calculator

If the source is good - and I bet it is - I would recommend SVCD, or even better -- CVD, which is as you probably know - 352x480(NTSC) or 352x576(PAL) pixels.


merry christmas to you too.