VCD Grainy Qaulity

[shadow507]

I captured video from from Canon Mini DV into Pinacle Studio 8 software. It plays fine in preview on the computer. I also copied it straight from the mini DV onto a VCR tape and quality is great. When I burned a VCD the picture was grainy when viewed on the TV (35 inch.) I researched the topic and my main question is: Would it be better to buy a DVD burner for better quality or different software rendering to make a quality VCD? I believe that VCD is limited, but before I invest in a DVD burner I want to make sure. Thanks in advance

[ktnwin]

PS8 sucks when making VCD with it. That's the fact, there is nothing anyone can do about it including Pinnacle company (actually they do not want to do anything about it).

Here are the alternatives:

a) use TMPGEnc to encode AVI file to MPEG-1 then use Nero to burn it as VCD, the video quality will be much better (Pinnacle forum also recommend this method)

b) if you get a DVD burner, then PS8 will be able to give you decent quality DVD (just do not go beyond 70 mins per disk)

[kazzer]

I second that.

Always choose TMPGEnc for high quality VCD!

[shadow507]

Would you still use pinnacle to capture form the mini DV camcorder, or just bring it in with Moviemaker or something like that before encoding it?

Thanks

Mike