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I'm very interested in your mini guide, as I have discovered the wonderfull world of capture,Vcd encoding, chapters, menus, and (not quite there yet), transitions.
Up until now, I've opened up videos in Ulead 5.0 (avi's captured with huffy), and it seemed buggy. So then, my question to you is,

1) If I could render in AVI mode, how is it possible, when all the transition clips are in Mpg? Does the program realize the difference, and put it in a buffer before final encoding, or is that why my system seems buggy?

2) I feel safe only encoding in Tmpgenc, so how can you frameserve from Ulead 5.0?

3) Is it safe to reencode an mpg1(vcd)without much quality loss, and if that's the case, are you saying to let Ulead encode, and then remux in Tmpgenc so that you can make a true compliant VCD?

1) It just re-enccodes as necessary, unless the clip is of the same codec/resolution/bitrate as your project settings. If it doesn't need to re-encode, it wont. Say you have two VCD-compliant clips, and your project settings are also VCD. you put a 320x240 transition between them, and it will re-encode the transition and the ends of the two clips that overlap that transition, but not the rest (it just remuxes the parts it doesn't need to encode.

2) I do not believe you can frameserve to any program from Ulead VS. It'd be popular with the tmpgenc crowd if you could! Edit in UVS, frameserve to tmpgenc and encode...ahhh...maybe someday.

3) When you encode anything to or from a lossy compression format, you lose a little bit of quality. As far as i'm concerned, I can live with the lesser quality of the Ulead encoding (compared to a good tmpgenc template), because I'm more of a lazy bum than I am a quality freak. To me, easier is usually preferable. Work is hard and pumping iron is hard (and plain old life is just hard) and both of those wear me out most days, so when I sit down to encode I am in "bum mode" and I want it to be point - click - burn, basically.

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Does Ulead give you VCD 2.0 compliancy problems?
If no, then I won't even bother using tmpgenc, if yes then do you suggest remuxing in tmpgenc?
Is there quality loss when you demultiplex and multiplex? Sorry for being a broken record.
Thanx..