[b]Another Newbie needs help with Nero[/b]

[shhas]

Hi everyone.
I have been visiting these pages quite frequently. I have a pretty good knowledge of computers but not movie editing and making.
Here is the deal (I know a lot of people have asked this before but please post the answer one more time)
I would like to make VCDs of my home videos. I have a Cannon Ultura miniDV camcorder and capture using the firewire port on my PC (P4 1.6, 512 ram, 64 vram) and Ulead Video Studio 5.0 SE. I capture in AVI and converte to VCD using template (NTSC) provided through Ulead.
I also used TMPGEnc.
The problem is that the quality of VCD sucks!. I looks good in a 3x3 inch screen on the PC but on my TV when playing it through my Toshiba DVD player, it's very blurry and at times blocky.
I know the concept of garbage in garbage out, but I am using raw DV and converting to AVI and basically following all the guidelines posted here.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to tweak bitrates, use another VCD template?....
I am not looking for DVD quality but at least something as good as VHS otherwise what is the point in this exercise?
Thanks a bunch,

[resnullius]

1 question did you convert your avi with ulead and then with tmpgenc? if so just use 1 not both (tmpgenc would be a good choice)

[shhas]

I captured through Ulead and then used it with its own template for VCD.
To compare, I captured again this time saved as avi and used TMPGnc to encode to vcd.
The TMPGnc VCD looks marginally better but as I said the output is a far cry comparing to VHS.

[resnullius]

what was your avi like? was the capture clean looking?
If it helps i recomend the reduce noise filter and sharpen edges

[nsklanfra@libero.it]

I'm shure you'll find a solution. Just use a high quality template, for example try to use TMPGENc with Motion search precision set to Veryyyy slow!
It ha s to e better then a VHS or at least equal!