Tips if you're converting captured avi to VCD!

[davidian]

Just let me give you a splendid tip. At least, this works for me.

First I load the captured avi into vdub and apply 2:1 vertical reduction (so I get the 352x288 framesize, I capture at 352x576), the smart smoother (does magic) and frameserve to tmpeg.

Then, I also add the noise reduction filter: 20-4-60. The noise reduction filter is very good and does wonder to the results. Often the colors are blurry and sort of "moves" a little, but this gets much softer and overall nicer.

Anyone got any other good tips to share?

/Johan

[TurboRunner]

I use to use Virtical Reduction but then read Lukes Video Guide said that you shouldn't use it since you get better result capturing at full resultion height of 576(Pal) and i've also heard you can keep the interlace and use Mpeg2(Svcd) which should play fine on computer and TV. Havn't tried it yet still working with converting my edited capture in Premiere to SVCD.

I originally planned to only make vcd but now i'm sick of the quality and since i foundout that there are a fairly good amount of standalone DVD Players that can handle SVCD and you can keep the footage interlaced and still be able to play on pc without seeing those unsightly lines which should mean better quality than merging the two frames together.

P.S maybe if your computer is powerful enough capture at 704x576

[davidian]

Yeah, my computer is capable of full screen capture, but there's really no point in capturing from VHS at any higher resolution than 352x576, since that's pretty close to the "resolution" of VHS. Capturing at higher frameseize would only resize the image, and then I'd resize it down again.

Yeah, I've thought about it too, making mpeg-2 files with VBR at a resolution of 352x576, making it *almost* SVCD. Only problem is that I'm capturing a movie that is 80 minutes long, and I'm not sure 80 minutes of that XVCD or whatever it is-format would fit on one cd. But VCD does.

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I'll try out some different methods. Thanks for answering!