Hi,
I am still a newbie despite the fact I am writing my own XVCDs for over a year.
I have a Sony Digital8 TRV 720, PIV 1,6 GHz, 512MB RAM, 60 GB HDD, 7200rpm, 100ATA, Pinnacle Studio DV fire wire card.
I do my capturing with Studio DV with no limit and no frame drops. NTSC, 720X480, 29,97fps. I tried Adobe Premiere but it was a fiasco.
Then I edit my avi file using Adobe Premiere 6.0 by cutting unwanted scenes, adding titles, sound, etc and render my creation as avi file, same NTSC, 720X480, 29,97fps, 44100Hz, 16 bit stereo.
I convert the rendered avi to mpeg-1 using TMPGEnc ver 2.57
Following your site I created my own template, 352X240, 4:3 NTSC, 2500Kbps. This was my best template and I couldn’t find a better one.
Just couple of days ago I saw a kid, a friend of mine, converting AvidivX downloaded from the internet to XVCD and the quality was amazing. I checked his template and he is using 720X480, 2000 Kbps.
I tried using his template but I don’t know why I get tones of pixels on my moving scenes.

Even you guys give a XVCD example with 720X480, which doesn’t work for me.
Is something else I am missing?