Best CVD Settings?, can't find this anywhere!

[dvdcam]

I was trying svcd's and the quality was terrible. Then I discovered CVD's. I used tmpgenc vbr 2-pass, and motion settings at high quality, then all other settings at default -- the jump in quality from my svcd's to cvd was AWESOME! I'm amazed. However, I'm just using most of the default settings in tmpgenc. I'm sure some tweaking can make my cvd's even better. Is there a good cvd guide or template somewhere? How can I get maximum quality out of my cvd's? Most of my clips are only 15mins long so I don't care about file size, I want quality. Thanks for any info ppl.

[DJRumpy]

I'd be curious why your SVCD's are such bad quality. Are they home movies (shakey cam)? Don't get me wrong, I prefer CVD, but SVCD, with a good quality source, should look about the same as CVD, assuming your not starved for bitrate (due to a noisy source or high motion).

[dvdcam]

my dvd player would not allow a bitrate over standard svcd. For some reason my svcd's were also slower motion. When I cut the cvd I was like, wow, everything is moving normally, etc. The svcd's also had much more fuziness and blocking -almost none on the cvd. My source is fairly good. A hitachi dvd cam which captures straight to mpeg2

[DJRumpy]

I refer to those as Skakey Vision. Any kind of Cam source eats up bandwidth like crazy due to the minor movement of your hands when your holding it. That answers my question. Your conversion to CVD free's up bandwidth to help reduce macroblocking due to bitrate shortage.

[MITSUI_1]

Hi,

I make my CVDs with Sound at 128kb/s Joint Stereo (or mono if from a vid cam).

Use avisynth to feed to CCE, and set CCE as follows:


* One pass VBR, Q = 16, min = 300, max = 2588

-or-

* Constant Bitrage = 2588

Other settings:

* Smooth/Complex = 12 - 22

* Noise Filter = 0 (since your stuff is cam, it is probably interlaced).

* Field order according to your source.

* 0-255 color

* DC Prec = 10

* Uncheck "linear quant scale"

* Uncheck zigzag scanning order, since you've got interlaced source.

* Use headac3e or toolame.exe to encode your audio

* Multiplex with BBMPEG

* Author with VCD Easy

* Burn bin/cue with your choice of software

[DJRumpy]

I would also lower your image quality priority somewhere between 0 (best) & 15 (Ok). I typically use 5 for a setting. The noise filter is unrelated to an interlaced source to my knowledge. It won't help your bitrate shortage though.

The rest of the settings should be fine.

[MITSUI_1]

DJR,

The noise filter is unrelated to an interlaced source to my knowledge.

Only it is, sometimes. CCE's noise filter is not field aware. That means its noise reduction matrix will blend information from adjoining fields together.

That's a "Bad Thing (TM)" and can wind up with flicker and stutter on play back.

[DJRumpy]

I wasn't aware of that. I'll have to keep that in mind in the future. I rarely use it, as my preprocessing is usually handled in AVISynth.