tmpgenc settings for good quality vcd

[bapski]

i have been trying to make a good quality VCD for more than a month now.. but always end up with videos that are problematic which include BLOCKS all over..

can anyone enlighten me as to what VCD settings i should tweak, consider to produce good quality VCD .. good quality, meaning getting rid of the BLOCKS...

i capture my video using a firewire card from my SONY DCRPC110.. do some editing with VEGAS VIDEO and render it using VV3's default template (or should i render my video using the highest template settings?) and encode my video using TMPGENC where i think the key to my problem lies....

thank you very much for all of your future help

[Tommyknocker]

Use the templates under the Load option in TMPGEnc. If they give you inferior results, try Kwag's templates www.kwag.net

[Anonymous65]

You cannot get rid of all the blocks in a VCD. The bit rate is to low for that. You will always have to live with some blockiness in a VCD.
To get block-free video, you need to increase the bit rate to 2.5Mb/sec or so, over twice the bit rate of VCD.

To minimize the blockiness, make sure the video source is noise free, and use a noise reduction filter to reduce noise. Tmpenc has a good noise reduction filter. Set it at 100% for VHS video tape.

[bapski]

tried kwags templates to no avail.. cant say my source video is inferior either.. i use a SONY DCRPC110 and a firewire card to capture from it...

tried making SVCD too, but the blocks are still present.. is there anyway i can rid of the blocks in SVCD if not in VCD?