Best of the best

[Ardani]

Hi all,

I've tried to search in the forum and tutorial as well but I'm still not quite sure which one to follow.

I'm trying to capture my daugter's bithday party from my DV camera into my computer, then I would like to encode it using TMPEGEnc into mpeg1 (vcd).

I know that DVD is much better but we can't effort for dvd at the moment.

So, my question is:

How do i set my TMPEGEnc and also my capture software so that I get the best of the best result in term of VCD quality.

any help is greatly appriciated.

Thanks in advance.

Ardani

[Donny661]

Set motion search in tmpg settings to "highest quality (very slow)"

I don't think there is anything you can do in your capture software because it is just taking video off your camera as it is.

See if your dvd player can play SVCD or CVD because those are higher quality formats but still go on a regular cd. The advantage to using CVD is it has a resolution of 352x480 instead of 480x480. There are two reasons why CVD can be better. First, less pixels means more bits/pixel which is always better. Second, a CVD is also DVD compliant which means if you get a DVD burner later down the line you can transfer your cds to dvds.

[tjtoed]

Are you capturing via a firewire card?

If so, I capture the video from my Panasonic DV camera into Windows Movie Maker 2 via a firewire card.

I capture using the DV-AVI setting (which will result in about an 18 Gb file for a 90 minute DV tape). I then edit it, cut it, whatever you want and then save out the clips I combined and created to DV-AVI movie files. These files can then go into TMPGenc for encoding. I personally use DVD Workshop to author and encode as it does as good a job as TMPGenc and is much faster.

I do this for DVDs and it produces an awesome result. I was watching my wedding video and it looks almost as if it was playing straight through the DV camera.

For VCD, I would guess you could capture and save out at a lower setting, like the 2.1 Mbps or so...

Hope this helps...

[Ardani]

guys thanks alot for the info.

I capture my DV using FireWire.

Now, I would like to know the BEST OF THE BEST setting for TMPEGEnc to encode my AVI into MPEG1 (VCD).

Thanks.

Ardani