ulead video studio 5

[rockhunter]

I just created my first svcd using ulead vs5 with dvd plug in. I captured and rendered the video @ 480X480 svcd setting, then burned the cd using the svcd settings. these were home movies i captured from my dv camcorder. they turned out okay, but there are a few spots where the video "skips" and several places where the pixels are very noticeable. my question is, would i get better results using other programs to do the mpeg conversion and actually burn the cd, or is this what svcd looks like? from what i've read here, the quality should be better than vhs. on some parts of the cd, it is, but on many parts, i get the pixels and hazy quality. any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. i'm actually interested in possibly converting some professionally done video on to svcd to sell to my clients, but the quality of what i've done so far wouldn't fly.
thanks!

[suriyan]

Did you choose "High quality" or "Highest Quality" in the settings for "Motion search precision" ?

[EricB]

rockhunter

I don't think the video should "skip" using the process you described unless you may be having issues with the player. Keep in mind that the digital playback is a lot more sensitive to breaks and starts in your source video.

I would take the DV footage and edit it in DV format. Save the resulting file as DV and use TMPGenc to encode to SVCD (standard template). Take that file, import to VideoStudio 5 and burn using the DVD Plug-in. Don't re-convert.

As for selling SVCD to clients, it really is a poorly supported, non-standard format. Unless you can dictate the playing hardware, you have a better than even chance of it not working on a given DVD player. I think we are only a few months away from affordable DVD burners and media which will improve both the video quality, and compatibility.