please tell me if time and disc space calculations are right

[happy camper too]

I want to end up with 60 minutes of video burned onto a VCD.

I've done some capturing of small test portions of the VHS tapes I want to put on VCD's and found that the raw "capture rate" is about 1 minute of my VHS tape for every approx 30Meg on my hard drive space. And that I can use TMPGenc to compress it(at a 16 to 9 ratio) down to about 17Meg. to get more movie per MB of VCD disc space with pretty good quality.

If I capture about 107 minutes of video tape, which would take about 3.21Gig, then use the 16 to 9 TMPGenc compressor, I'd end up with about 60 mins of VDC, Right? Or am I not figuring something right? Somehow I thought I'd need more hard drive space.

Please tell me, I have SO much to learn!

Thank you

[baker]

If you are working on vcd standards using tmpegenc then a vcd holds 74 mins to a 74 min cd and 80 mins to an 80 mins cd.

Baker

[happy camper too]

Ok, I was thinking in even hour increments per VCD, but then if I wanted to end up with 80 minutes of burned movie, I would raw capture for about 142 minutes to compress it with TMPGenc to 80 mins. Is that Right?

with 22Gig of free hard drive space is that possible? I somehow though that Huge gigabytes of hard drive space would be used in capturing. But it doesn't sound like it, or am I wrong.

[baker]

its as simple as this:

vcd standards are CBR this means constant bitrate so in other words the bitrate is the same throughout the movie. It work out 10mb per minit and and when a vcd is written it is written in mode 2 this allow for an extra 90mbs of space. This means 74 mins per cd-r.

Baker

[happy camper too]

Ok,

But please tell me how much hard drive space it takes to capture and encode with TMPGenc, etc. in order to burn a 74 minute VCD?

thank you, Baker

[baker]

as for capturing it depends on how you are capturing. for best quailty use the huffyuv codec at rgb. and a res of 352x576.

Baker

[happy camper too]

I'm using the MovieStar software that came with my Dazzle Video Creator II. And although it seems easy to use, I don't see anything in the manual about this.

Do you know anything about the Dazzle MovieStar program? And how much disk space it needs to capture enough VHS video to burn a 74 min. VCD?

Or are ther any Dazzle users here?

[Trik]

baker:

Th link to you guide is bad, probably because of spaces


http://www.vcdhelp.com/The%20fastest%20and%20easiest%20way%20to%20create%20a%20pal%20V...%20page_files/

[baker]

Use vdub as it is best. A guide can be found in the guides section I am sure.

My guide link may not work on your browser or baldrick is playing with the server.

Baker

[happy camper too]

Baker(I got to your site just fine, but am in the US, so don't use PAL),

are you talking about capturing with VirtualDub? I may try that when I get more experience, but for now I think I want to use my Dazzle MovieStar program(will some added plug-ins other talented people have created to improve it), since I'm sort of used to practicing with it...and the re-encoding/compressing with TMPGenc.

Am I misunderstanding what you are saying? Again, are you talking about capturing with VirtualDub?

AND would somebody please amswer that question I asked, please. It may sound lame to all the experienced users here, but I'd like to get a rough idea of how much space on my hard drive it would take to capture enough to fill my VCD.

thank you

[baker]

Yes capturre in vdub. Dont worry baldrick has a guide which is very informative and easy to use. Try it. Thenm do a 10 min capture and work out how big your file size will be.

ALWAYS CAPTURE AT 352X480 AND RESIZE DOWN!

Baker