VCDs

[Kaiman]

Hello, I am planning to burn some vcds, however, the movies I have are quite large,,,750megs. I am told that I may have to cut them using virtualdub...this I can manage.
What I am trying to find out is whats the max capacity for the vcd so i may know how to cut the movies effectively .

Thank you

K

[Truman]

Which format are the movies? If you have a 750MB MPEG, it will fit on a 80min CD. VirtualDub is for avi editing. If you want to cut a MPEG, use bbMPEG.
The max capacity of a 74min/ 80min VCD is about 740MB/ 800MB. The max capacity of minutes depends on the bitrate of video/ audio.

[Kaiman]

The formats are avi and divx.
If the movie is 750 meg and the running time is 110 minutes, can it still fit on a 800 meg vcd??

thank you

[Shabubu]

With vcd's the file size doesn't matter, it's the length that counts, it basically works that a 75min CD (650Mb) will hold 75mins of video. Though to make a VCD you'll need to encode to MPEG1. For VCD they need to be encoded at 1,150 Kbps, with 41,100Hz 224 kbps audio (forgive me if I get kbps and bps mixed up ), and have to be 352x288 @ 25fps (PAL), or 352x240 @ 30fps (NTSC). The details of how to do it are all to the right Get TMPGEnc to cut and re-encode (cutting is in the MPEG tools section of the file menu)

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