Vcd movement

[wjack53]

I have made a couple of VCD movies and have noticed that when someone moves fast I lose the quality of the picture. Is this normal or do I need to tweek something?

[theDruid]

Unfortunately, this is normal!

There are certain things you can do to improve the quality of the VCD a little (e.g. 'High Quality (very slow)' motion detection setting in TMPGEnc, and the setting in FlaskMPEG to use the highest quality/slowest speed algorithms for encoding) but the VCD format uses so much compression (and a constant bitrate) that a bit of loss of quality is inevitable when there's a lot of movement in the picture.

Post your method for authoring your VCD's and people might be able to suggest some specific tweaks for your software etc.. but be prepared for your encoding time to go up!!

' hope this helps,

mcdruid.

[daydreamer]

Can you play SVCD's on your player?

If you make SVCD's you get a much higher bitrate therefore higher quality allround.

I encode using TMPGEnc using 2-pass VBR (Average bitrate 1800, Max2520, Min 300) and enable padding. This means using 2 CD's per movie, but if the source file is good quality then the SVCD should turn out decent.

Hope this helps

Regards, Dreamer

[wjack53]

One program is TMPGEnc. I also use another called EO Video. I will try the suggestions. Thanks for the quick response from both of you!