PIXEL FREE VCD

[SHAHID CHHIPA]

HOW CAN I MAKE PIXEL FREE VCD ON ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO 9.

[mats.hogberg]

Since VCD is low res, low bitrate, not much can be done but use better tools.
See the CONVERT section left under "??? to VCD" for options for VCD creation.
And turn off Caps lock - you come across shouting.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

There is no such thing as a pixel (or artifact) free VCD. Every commercially encoded and pressed VCD I have (admittedly not many because the format is crap) has artifacts due to the low bitrate used.

[Scorpion King]

Now days there isn't a lot of need to create VCD because of all the better formats available that can do a lot better job of retaining quality at the same or lower bitrate. VCD is 1150Kbps @ 352x240 NTSC or 352x288 PAL framesize and MPEG-1 compression. Using the same framesize and bitrate would be kinda over-kill with formats like Divx or Xvid, and X264/H264 codec at the same quality level as VCD (imo). Using these codecs you could increase the framesize to like 640x384 and still get higher quality video with that bitrate (again imo). Many avi files I have seen are even as low as 600Kbps and have better quality than many VCD files I have. MPEG1 just doesn't compress as well and the required small framesize looses so much detail in the video you are defeated long before you begin to encode.

I have gotten some fairly nice looking VCD files by starting with nothing but the highest quality source files, using top-notch mpeg encoders like Tmpgenc and setting it up to do the very best and slowest job it can. Even the quality of the resize is important when you are after the best you can get.

Ulead (imo) just can't stand up to these stringent standards when you set them high enought. You will need to get some better tools of which most are freeware in the case of vcd. lol

Good luck.

[stantheman1976]

You will never make a good VCD with Ulead. Their built in encoder is terrible. If you capture in DV AVI and encode with TMPGEnc or another encoder you'll get better results.

Even with that method, like gunsl1inger said, the bitrate of VCD is very limited and will never be as good as a higher MPEG-2.