DVD to 1 Cd (VCD)

[Gutcher]

What changes need to be made in order to fit on DVD movie on one VCD/cd disk. Example, I made a VCD of the movie Swordfish. The mpeg version was 900megs, so i had to put on 2 cd's. How can i trim it by 130megs without losing tooo much quality. Is it possible? I don't mind 2 cd's, but when i record on for the child, i hate getting up every 45 mins to swap cd's. (<-----disney stuff).

[Vejita-sama]

You'll need to make an xVCD. First it's a good idea to only encode the actually movie (ie. remove the end credits, as they just take up space and make the movie bigger). You can either only rip the movie you want, or use the source range command in TMPGenc.

1) Look in the "Tools" section at the vcdhelp.com bitrate calculator. Enter your info. Let me furhter suggest that you lower the audio bitrate from 224kbit/s to 128kbit/s (this will give more kbit/s to the video).

2) Rip movie to HD. If it's a film/telecined movie then enable force film in DVD2AVI to generate a 23.976fps D2V to work with (this also improves quaility of the encoded video).

3) Run TMPGenc, load the VCD_film template (if enabled force film, if not then use normal VCD template), then load the unlock template (should be in ../templates/extra)

4) Choose your D2V and wav source material. Name your output file.

5) Click on settings. Click on the audio tab, and change the bitrate to 128kbit/s if desired.\

If you don't know how or weren't able to cut out the ending credits, click on advance and double click on source range. Choose the start stop points you want, look at the total runtime selected, enter that time in the bitrate calculator. Also make sure that you select "full screen - keep aspect ratio"

Click on setup/main, make sure the resolution is set to 352x240 (when you unlock, the default will be the source resolution). For best results I would actually use 352x480 or 480x480.

For encode method you have two choices. 1) Choose CBR and enter the video bitrate from the calculator. 2) For best results two 2pass VBR and set min=300, max=2520, ave= #from calculator. This will double the encode time, but give much better results.

6) Encode, burn, enjoy

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Vejita-sama on 2001-12-14 15:45:29 ]</font>

[kinneera]

A few things I think are worth adding...If you are trying to fit an entire movie on one disc, you will probably want to stick with 352x240, since your bitrate will be pretty low. I also strongly recommend 2-pass VBR to make the most of the limited bitrate. Also, if you are doing animation, make sure you select the CG/Animation setting under the quantization matrix settings in TMPGEnc. You may also see a benefit from applying a smoothing filter, since MPEG has difficulty with animation (In TMPGEnc, the noise reduction filter is basically a smoother).

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: kinneera on 2001-12-14 16:15:49 ]</font>