Looking for All-in-1 solution : (JPG,MPG/AVI,Sndtrk)->VCD

[hawkfire]

Most digital cameras now days have a movie mode. And a lot of program exist to allow you to turn your photos into a VCD presentation, complete with backing soundtrack. I'm looking for an all-in-one solution that will do JPGs *AND* movie clips, preferably MPEG, but AVI would be acceptable as well. Is there anything out there that can do this? Preferably for $100 or less?

[MachineMan]

Check out Ulead DVD PictureShow2 in the tools section of this website on the left side.

It can do Picture VCD's with background audio with a title menu. You can also add video clips as some of the menu selections.

I have made a picture VCD with some of my digital camera videos but my cameras movie resolution was small so when it was expanded up to my TV screen size it looked like crap. Maybe your resolution is much better then mine. My camera is 3 years old.

[hawkfire]

I was kind of hoping for something that would run seamlessly together, rather than as an added menu option. I done similar shows using HTML and Javascript, but I wanted to translate that concept to VCD.

[MachineMan]

I think it will run seemlesly together if you configure the menu to go to the next item with out returning to the menu. So when a clip is finished it will jump to the next. I have never tested this with pictureshow2 but I know it works with Ulead Moviefactory2 which would also do what you want for <$50. Movie factory2 has more video features and less picture features then Pictureshow2.

If you want picture and video in the same clip then you will need to use an editing progroam to attach them all together in a timeline and the render to VCD.

[rilles]

My canon S230 pumps out MJPEG movies.

There are a few places that sell a decoder.

Virtualdub is freeware that will decode, join segments and convert them to any format but MPEG 1/2 (which is what I want).

So I convert them to lossless Huffy, then use TMPEnc to convert them to DVD MPEG2 hi-res for storage.

TMPEnc can also encode them to VCD or SVCD mpeg videos. Ulead will also do it, but I found the quality is not as good as TMPEnc.

[hawkfire]

Thanks everyone for your help. I'll give those 2 programs a look - sounds like at least one of them should do the trick!

Cheers!