Cleaning up a VCD

[bladestorm]

I know I cant make a VCD or any video for that matter look DVD quality, but is there a way to "clean up" a VCD? There has to be a way with some software.


Thanks

[vtoskov]

When making a VCD 99.99% of the quality depends on the source file. If your source file is not that good quality than your VCD won't come out any better. Now I assume that you are making VCDs using avi files, and if you are, when using software to encode you have options to filter some things. Such as sharpening the picture, noise reduction etc. But I've tried them all and when I used them I just wasted more time, and my movie quality was not improved at all. So always try to get a good quality source file, because there no way cleaning it if its not good.

[txpharoah]

Yes, but what is the problem You attacked different errors different ways. What is wrong? Details...

[VCD GURU]

The noise reduction filter in TMPGenc works great!

Often when you shoot your own videos you dont use as much light as you should and so on..

This filter make the video smooth and nice to look on.

But it takes 20 hours or so to process per 1 hour video.
(It took so long with me 850mhz, maybe twice as fast now with my 1600mhz. i havent tried yet.)

If you shoot your own videos and have alot of noise (small dots all over it)
Then i would give this filter a go. It does a really good job and makes the video smooth. There is a preview so you dont have to encode anything to see the difference.