creating MPEG videos with MPEG stills using VCDeasy

[npereira]

How do you create MPEG videos with VCDeasy using MPEG stills created with VCD easy.

/NPereira

[npereira]

Can anyone help?

Or tell me another program that I could use to do this?

Please?

[Panash]

Convert your file to an MPEG still using the MPEG stills tab. You will find this under 'Tools' (look for the hammer in front of a CD). After conversion, you should then be able to drag them into the main list and reference them as you would for any mpg file.

Excellent s/w, I now use it in prefernce to Nero.

PN

[npereira]

That's what i've been doing so far. my only issue is that I cannot have a music soundtrack added to a sequence of MPEG stills in VCDeasy.

I want to make chapters, (eg.: press #1 to see pictures of my house, press #2 to see pictures of my parents, ..etc with background music) but i need to have theses MPEG stills in a MPEG video with the sound track added. I cannot do this with VCDeasy.

I LOVE VCDeasy, but it lacks a few features like this one. It seems that everybody is using VCDeasy to rip and decode DVD movies to (S)VCD's. I don't want to use it for that, I want to use it to do Digital Picture video "montage". I have over 4000 pictures on film and CD's.

Looks like nobody can help me.

I spent 500$ on software like Roxio Videopack 5 and Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6 that will do what I want, although the end VCD (played on a stand-alone Home DVD player), the visual quality on a TV set looks so poor, it's humiliating.

I've also tryied DVD workshop, DVD Movie factory, Adobe premiere, TSCV, VCD2TK, WinOnCD, u name it! Nothing seems to be able to do what I'm looking for in a decent visual quality then wath VCDeasy is producing.

...

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[jvolino]

Well, I think if you've tried all those programs and you still are unhappy with quality, maybe it's due to the fact that VCD resolution is only 352 X 240 or so and extremely compressed. Also, if your orignal pics (presumably JPEGS) were saved with high compression, then you simply will not see good quality. Also, TV's are even less detailed compared to what you see on a computer monitor.

[gonz0]

It is my understanding that the VCD standard does not support background music in mpeg stills. You can sort of do this by adding a separate music track after each still, but then you won't have a continuous background music. To create a standard VCD or SVCD, you'll have to create a video mpeg consisting of the pictures and the music - at the lower resolution (352x240 or 480x480 for SVCD). You can encode a nonstandard video at a higher resolution, but then it may not play on your DVD player.

To burn a video with a higher resolution in VCDEasy, you have to turn off the compliancy checks.

[npereira]

Last night,

I downloaded the trial of Ulead Picture Show, and burned 3 sequences of 10 images each with a different background music track to each sequence.
When I played it on my Toshiba DVD, the resolution is AMAZING to say the least.

Although, I cannot make anykind of transitions between the stills.

Any suggestions?

Reagrds,

/NPereira