Can't create SVCD w/ VV3 ????

[whumphrey]

Has anyone made a SVCD with Vegas Video 3? I've made a VCD no problem with
Tools|Burn|Video CD but there is no option to render directly to mpeg2. I
CAN make a SVCD mpeg2 file with Tools|Burn|Multimedia CD so I thought I had
a great idea...I'll make the .mpg as a
"multimedia CD" rendering to mpeg2, then burn a "Video CD" with the .mpg
file I just created with mpeg2. When I went to burn, VV3 complained that it
wasn't a "VCD-compliant MPEG" but gave me the option to burn anyway...so I
did. Well, It didn't work in my DVD player (the same player that played VCD
without error). Actually I got a garbled screen of green lines and a very
faint audio track in the background but it never played.

I realize this could mean a number of things such as my DVD player doesn't
support SVCD but I'd sure like to hear how other VV3 users have gone about
creating SVCDs.

I'm also all ears if someone could suggest a better package or supplemental package.

Thanks,
-WH

[bbb]

I had a similar experience with some of my svcds on my Pioneer. The sound plays for 1-2 seconds but the video doesn't show or is garbled.

Maybe you can send me Vegas Video 3 and I can test it's capability in making SVCDs.

[kinneera]

Well, you can't just burn an SVCD video stream into a VCD disc structure and have it work, which is what it sounds like you did. You will probably need an SVCD authoring tool, such as Nero, TSCV, or VCDEasy.

[cybersincere]

Hello,

Vegas Video 3.0 can burn Disc at Once Red Book Audio CD masters (no other video editing application for the Mac or the PC can), MPEG1 VCDs (not X(s)VCDs or SVCDs or DVDS), and auto-loading multimedia CDs. If you want to encode a file as SVCD or DVD to take into another burning application, just get your timeline set, go to File/Render As/MainConcept MPEG2/Custom. Set the advanced preferences there for the audio/video streams and render your timeline. The output file should be able to match just about any burning applications specs out there, for both PAL and NTSC.