Creating MPG from photos - Can't get good quality

[jeepfly]

I am using Easy CD creator to burn digital JPG photos to MPEG-1 file. I have included audio,transitions and text into the movie, But after saving to an MPG file the quality drops drastically both video and audio. I have each photo being displayed for about 8 seconds before transitioning into another one. The photo's seems to start out blurry and then slightly improve as they are displayed over the 8 seconds. I also tried saving to AVI a little better but not much. Are my expectation too high? Do I need to use MPEG-2. Unforunatly Easy CD does not supprt that. Any thoughts...

Thanks
John

[rbruner2]

Your photos are certainly probably higher resolution than VCD quality, so you will lose quality. I've done the same, and the result was slightly "fuzzy" pictures due to loss of resolution.

You might try using VCDImager Easy 1.0.1 which has freeware burning software, if it works on your system. I have used it and it works. (My Easy CD Creator doesn't even support burning VCDs, let alone SVCDs!) So, I only use Easy CD creator for writing data and audio CDs.

The sound issue is different. What is the source of your audio? What software are you using to edit? I was getting horrible sound quality in Studio DV using their "Generate CD Background music" function. Someone recommended trying a freeware program called CDex (you can do a search for it on the web) to capture the track from a CD. I then imported this into Studio as a wave file, and the sound was great. Perhaps you are under a similar issue. Your sound is probably getting clipped, causing audio quality degradation.

[jeepfly]

Unfortunatly I have yet to find a software package that supports Photo's with both audio and transistions that can be saved to SVCD or MPEG2. Arcsoft is coming out with a new product called ShowBiz, Does anyone know if this package support this?

[rbruner2]

You should be able to output AVI files, however, which can be converted using TMPGEnc.