blurry quality vcd

[kiva33]

Anyone have any ideas as to why my final vcd is blurry poor quality. I captured digital edited and sent out crystal clear back to digital with Pinnacle 7, using Win98se PIII 933 . Nero 5x for vcd but quality of vcd sucks.

[VCD-Trading]

Its either the hardware or software that sucks......

I suggest getting away from the crappy computer and get a stand alone VCD recorder... I have the Terapin and its the best!!
Mpeg1 DVD quality!!!








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[Anonymous65]

Is your VCD's poor quality compared to a commercial made VCD's, or is it poor compared to a DVD? This is a very important point.

First, you need to know what the quality of a good VCD is, and then find out where the quality loss happens when making your VCD's. For the best VCD creation, use the standard rules:

* Capture AVI at 352x480

* Compress and resize to VCD using Tmpgenc

* Burn to CD-R

If you record from a DVD player, digital cable or satellite, or a S-VHS player, the quality should be quite good. Poor VHS tapes will not look good unless you use some major filtering to reduce the noise.

[ktnwin]

Hey, this must be your first VCD, right ? With MPEG file created from Studio DV software. No wonder its quality sucks.
Here is how I do it:
1) capture the edited movie to an AVI file using Studio DV. I assumed you have a digital camcorder here based on your description
2) encode that AVI file using TMPGEnc using its VCD template, result is an MPEG-1 file
3) burn that MPEG-1 file as a VCD using Nero 5.x software
The resulting quality will be much much better.

In step 2, you can also encode to SVCD or XVCD for even better quality (superb I would say). The Terapin cannot simply match that quality due to its fixed encoding bit rate. The Terapin does not have DVD quality as the VCD-trading guy advertise. We understand he has a very good reason to (for VCD trading of course).
:P