Please i'm deseperatly looking for help with easy cd creator

[flava2k]

Hello everyone...
I was looking forward to burn some videos by using easy cd creator 5 platinum because i've heard someone saying that it's the best program to encode a video and get a very good quality after encoding it.
BUT....i got a problem!!!!
easy CD can't load any AVI files...I got full length AVI movies....i don't want to encode it by TMPGEnc because i tried it and the quality is awful...the quality of the originall movie is excellent though.The movie is in to parts.
I wish i can get the same quality as the original movie when i play it on my PC. I just want to burn them as VCD so i can play them on my DVD player.
I've been "DESEPERATLY" looking for programs to get a better quality....still the same..wrong programs.
is there any pluggin for easy cd creator to load avi files???...do you guys know any program that can encode or burn the video as VCD with the same quality???
I'm just going crazy really....i swear to god ...that's the only thing i want to know...is how to get a quality as the same original Video(or AvI).
Please help me!!!
Thanx
bye

[mikerios]

Have you tried DVD Movie Factory or DVD Workshop? Both will make VCDs and capture from camera ( not sure about using AVI,s ) however EZ Cd does not have a great encoder nor is it very good at much else, TMPEGEnc is a far superior encoder ( once you know how to use it ).

[punkster103]

encode them

[buzz10]

Flava, you are trying to do something that can't be done...sounds like you need to read up more on what VCD's are and how they are made. A VCD video file is a .dat file that is created from a compressed .mpg file. I've never heard of being able to take the raw .avi files and burn them into VCD .dat format directly. Even if you could...you would only be able to fit a couple minutes of video on one CD because the raw uncompressed .avi files are FREAKING HUGE!.....that is the WHOLE reason why .mpg video file compression was created. So go back to the HOW TO sections and read, read, read...

You are also confused as to what Easy CD Creator does. It DOES NOT do any ENCODING...it is only a CD burning and VCD burning program.

TMPGenc is an encoder...which means it will take your raw .avi files and compress them into .mpg format which you can then use EZCD Creator to burn that .mpg file as a VCD (it will end up being a .dat file on the CD). And for your information TMPGenc is BY FAR the best encoder available for the money (free!).... don't be afraid to use it.

[johnl]

Bravo to the other people posting replies, they're correct. Open your .avi file in windows media player and look at the properties of the clip(your .avi file). I imagine that video size viewing it at 100% is 176 x 144, possibly at 15 frames per second. Video cd is 352 x 240, 29.97 frames per second. If the video size at 100% is 176 x 144 or what ever (smaller than 352 x 240) you are strecthing the video and loosing quality. Similar to enlarging a .jpg photo. The average file size for a vcd is 600 megabytes for one movie cd, usually vcd movies are posted on 2 cd's, the movie is split in half to get the whole thing on 2 cd's. A full length vcd compliant movie on 2 cd's is usually 1.2 gb (gigabytes)
What is the file size of your movie clip (in Megabytes(mb))?

[flava2k]

Ok guys...thanx alot for your replies.
Actually, i've tried Ulead Movie factory and it does not support AVI files!
Maybe there's something to do with TPMGEnc to get a very good quality for a VCD.
When i encode my files to VCD by using TMPGEnc, i get pink weired colors in the movie...you'll just hate to watch a movie that way.
I don't even know why do i get weired colors when i encode the files to VCD by using TMPGEnc!!
guys.....this is my last try...do you know (OR have) any ideas to encode a movie file to VCD by using TMPGEnc??...have you tried it and does it look okay?....even if i can't get a quality as the original video after encoding....i just don't want to get weired colors in the encoded movie.
(((I wish that i can find a solution for that one day)))

[johnl]

There is a program in the 'convert' section of this wonderful webpage called 'avi2vcd'. It does the same thing as tmpeg but simpler to use with less configuration. It probably will give you identical results though.
Try downloading/capturing mpeg 1 files instead of avi's, life will be a lot better.....

[flava2k]

thank yu so much for your help!
I'll try that one and see.