Video looks great after i capture it and put it on to VHS, a

[eprunner06]

I capture my video from Hi8 tapes using ATI's MMC 7.1
I capture the video to a 320x240 avi. When I put that avi on to a VHS, the video is great, however, after I encode it to SVCD and burn the SVCD the video is not nearly as good as the VHS, I think that I would have to be doing something wrong. Heres what I do when I encode it.
I use the SVCD template, with a resolution of 480x480 resolution, and a 2500 bitrate. I put the audio on the highest quality. I put the motion search accuracy on highest quality. Then I encode to SVCD, and I burn it using Nero 5.0. One thing that I think could possibly have an effect is that I use cheap CDR's. Does the CD have anything to do with the quality of the video. If so, what kind of CDR is the best quality.
Please reply
Thank You!
Eric

[eprunner06]

One other thing, could it possibly be TMPG (thats what I encode with) that is causing the video quality to go down, if so where can I get a better encoder, for a cheap price. I am using the first version of TMPG (beta 12a) because all of the other ones of MPEP 2 encoding restrictions (the one month limit thing)

[disturbed1]

320x240 is really low res. Increasing the resolution from 320x240 to 480x480 when encoding is pretty drastic, your bound to lose a lot of quality.

Try capping at the highest resolution your computer can handle. I use a DC10+ and cap at 608x464 3000Kbytes/s. Results are really close to the orignal with VCD, and SVCD looks like the original.

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[eprunner06]

Thank You!

[Ton]

2 things.
If you cant capture at a higher resolution consider getting a Digital-8 Camera. I was capturing to 720x480 DV codec .avi by playing my Hi-8 Tapes back in a Digital 8 camera and then out via firewire to the computer. I then burned them to (X)SVCD at either 720x480 and at least 3500 bitrate or 480x480 and 2500 or better bitrate. The results were quite good. The 720x480 3500 CQ90 setup yeilded about 35-40 min per disk and the 480x480 2500 cq95 yeilded slightly more.

The other option is to capture at 352x240 and then make 352x240 SVCDs instead of 480x480. Wont be as much detail as the above method, but you can drop the bitrate further and fit a little more on a disk.