Poor VCD quality , need help

[edubz]

Hello I am a switcher to the mac platform and I imported a movie to imovie 3. I saved it as VCD for toast but the quality was horrible. Anyone know how I can get a better quality VCD? I have tried some tools, like ffmpeg, and missingmpegtools, but everytome I try to do it, a terminal window pops up and I get know where. I just want something that works ...thanks

[vcdhowto]

make a svcd if your dvd player can handle it.

if its analog footage that you imported from digital cam. then this is the best way to go in my opinion. i tried everything nobody else has an answer!

remember its not going to be better then your analog video it will be a bit worse cause its compressed like 10 times as much lol

try it

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/136948.php
you can make a vcd with this process aswell...

The terminal window pops up cause it starts to encode the video in that. just takes forever if your running a slow mechine, let it do its job youll have an mpg.

[WiseWeasel]

Use ffmpegX to convert to VCD format (with the presets menu at the bottom). This gives you vastly superior quality to Toast's terrible, terrible VCD encoder component for QuickTime.