HELP with compression for business card size VCD

[hernbr]

I am working on my Sr. Project and am creating a promo video for our Auto Dept at my college. We will be puting the video (6-8 min) on a Business Card-sized CD-R and duplicating 1000 of them in all. Each CD holds about 80-100 mb.

I am using Final Cut Pro 3 on my Dual Gig Mac G4 (1.5 gb RAM) and will be burning the Master CD on my SuperDrive via either Toast Titanium 5 or another app, and duping them with www.cdman.com.

My Question: Does anyone know what the best settings to use for "compression" in FCP3? I know that the Sorenson 3 codec is best for VCDs in that it has high compression with the least quality loss (plus image smoothing). Also we want to make a flash intro for the CD.

So if anyone has any experience or advice, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

[vitualis]

Are you actually making a VCD ( http://www.vcdhelp.com/vcd ) or "video on a CD-ROM"?

It sounds like the latter.

Regards.

[tgpo]

I know that the Sorenson 3 codec is best for VCDs in that it has high compression with the least quality loss (plus image smoothing).

Who told you that? You don't use Sorenson for VCD's. Infact you usually go directly from .vob or .m2v to .mpeg or .cue & .bin. There is no need to export using sorenson.

Now if you are wanting to place a video on a CD-ROM check out the 3ivx codec. It's files sizes are smaller than Sorenson, yet the videos look much better in quality.