Making a sVCD with my new AIT AIW Radeon 7500

[Feanor1]

Ok, My problem is I just got this card and when I capture at the large res.'s even the Huffyuv codex creates jumpy AVI files (and i'm running it on a P4 1.8Ghz w/512 DDR). If I capture with no compression it looks great when I convert to sVCD, but thats alot of diskspace. It seems that if I capture it to a good Quality Mpeg-2 it looks great, but not so much when I limit it to 480x480.

My question is How can I capture to Mpeg-2 at greater than 480x480 and then process it down to the 480x480 required for Nero sVCD's?
Also, Any other suggestions on how to go about making perfect sVCD's would be helpful. I'm a newbie at this.

[Zogg]

Feanor1, I had the same basic problem. AVI files captured with VirtualDub using HuffyUV look jumpy (which I have read might be okay since HuffyUV isn't intended for playback), but more importantly I drop a lot of frames capturing like this. Uncompressed works better but the file sizes are huge. BTW I am using an AIW Radeon, WinXP, MMC7.6.

I have settled on capturing MPEG2 480x480, which seems to look pretty good. If you capture at a higher resolution, then you'll have to reencode the file at a lower resolution if required. If your DVD player can handle the higher resolution okay, then just turn off the compliancy check in Nero when you burn the SVCD, and stick with the higher res. If you have to use a lower res, such as 480x480, then I suggest you just capture at that res to begin with and save yourself some time and effort.

I have found that using the free TMPGenc with files created from the AIW is incredibly slow and the results are less than spectacular. I highly recommend that you experiment to find the capture settings (res, bitrate, etc.) that makes you happy and then capture straight into that format. Then all you have to do is edit and go on. You'll just have to experiment some, as I have been doing the past few weeks, but trust me, this will save you a lot of time processing your videos. Others will tell you to capture to AVI, then edit and convert, and perhaps that will yield better video but it takes a LOT more time so you'll have to decide if it's worth it or not. Good luck!