640x480Avi to SVCD

[ZattleBone]

Hi

I have a Fuju FinePix F601 digital camera which takes avi movies at 15fps and 640x480 resolution. I'm trying to edit these using some Ulead software and want to eventually export the finished product to a SVCD format.

My question is what format/resolution/fps should I be saving the output as. I tried avi but the file was huge. Mpg was better but the resolution seems to have changed and Nero had to reincode the file before burning it. There seem to be dozens of output options and I don't want to try each one in turn and waste a load of CD's

Apologies if this is in the FAQ.

Hopefully

Zatt.

[dcsos]

Apology accepted as its in all the FAQ's
DVD's need to be 720x480 at 29.97fps (VIDEO) or 23.7fps (FILM)
You'll need a cheap VIDEO EDITING application to ready your files for use on a DVD
Premiere, Vegas or Ulead each has an option somewhere to MATTE or LETTERBOX the 640x480 file and not stretch it as its RENDERED to the REQUIRED
FORMAT
And what is this format, you might ask?
Well its MPEG-2
MPEG-2 type files additionally have sub-characteristics that put them inoto one of 2 classes
1.PROGRAM MPEGS
2.STREAM MPEGS
We use "PROGRAM MPEG's" to make DVD's exclusively

ULEAD may not use the official LINGO above to describe the kind of output it gives you to use on a DVD you author, but something to keep in MIND
If you're not using the companion ULEAD authoring package, you need to: 1. check the ACCEPTABILITY of the MPEG files you make in ULEAD to use in the application of choice (NOT PLAYING ANY FAVORITES HERE Sonic Foundry DVDARCHITECT or DVDLAB will do)

SO DO A SHORT TEST FILE
or a small piece of a longer one

MAKE IT MPEG-2 and If you can set bit rate more accurately than
LOW...MED...HI
select about 6 MILLION BITS for your first test..then you can go UP in quality from here if all signs POINT to OK!
In SOME PROGRAMS output is 2 seperate FILES that match: (MPG audio & video companions) in others ONE MULIPLEXED audio & video file is generated..
SOMEONE help this lad out as I DON'T specifically know whether you will be using a application that makes 2 or one DVD COMPATIBLE output file

BY THE WAY.. If your segment are lready edited in the CAMERA, you coul consider makig those HUGE AVI's (the quality will be better)
and just doing a conversion to MPEG-2 using TMPGENC a freeware ENCODER for dvd format that works for 30days nopay