Conversion whoas

[youdontseeme]

I originally posted this under "newbie", but then saw the "newbie conversion" (sorry admins)

Ok. I captured a movie from my analog camcorder in avi format.
It was fairly clear (shot at night). However, it was 1.18gig. Upon viewing the film, you did not see any pixels.

So I used Avi2Vcd to compress it to MPEG1. Now the size was only 50.5mb.

But the quality suffered. When I watched the mpeg, you could see some pixels. Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to compress without losing this amount of quality?

FYI: I tried TMPEG and Panasonic Encoder with similar problems.
Could all my problems come from the analog crappy camcorder I'm using?

Thanks a mil fellows.

[MaDmiZe]

Probly compressing too much....higher compression equals lower bitrate equals squares (artifacting)...
Try less compression...by the way you did not say how long the clip was...in vcd format you get about 10mb for every minute....if your clip was only 5.5 minutes then 55 mb is right....try using either SVCD or xVCD as the bitrates can be much higher.

[youdontseeme]

The clip was 5 minutes long (1.18gig)

I compressed it to around 50 something meg.

I never made it into a VCD or SVCD. I converted it from avi to mpeg. I did however convert it from mpeg to VCD and the quality was awful. So I am sticking with just mpeg for pc viewing purposes.

Thanks for the reply. Any other encoders you recommend?

[MaDmiZe]

If you want mpg then use TMPG...just use the svcd template...thats about twice the bitrate of the vcd you made....or use the dvd template.
If you dont care about having mpg...then virtualdub will encode to just about any codec on your pc.....use one of the divx codecs...compression is good and its still high resolution and low loss.