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Hello, I am producing some clips for VCD viewing. They are rather short and are linked within PDF documents as video demonstrations. I need fairly small file sizes so I can pack them all into the CD along with the PDF file itself.
After a LOT of experimenting I am getting what looks good to me, but I have a nagging
thought that somehow I’m missing something obvious. Will someone please critique what I’m doing?
(My system: Pentium 4, 1.82 GHz, 768 MB Ram, 60g & 40g NTFS HD’s, AIW 8500DV capture card, soundblaster)
--Capture from Canon ZR-60 DV to Ulead Capture. I haven’t been able to find any setting to adjust so I think it is raw DV type-1, 720X480. I tried to capture in VirtualDub but my AIW card doesn’t seem to like it. I tried installing a VFW wrapper, but this must not be the problem. So, of all the capture facilities I have tried, Ulead’s works the best for me right now.
--Save in Ulead Capture as .AVI with Huffy v2.1.1. Under the Huffy “Options” I select “Predict Median (best),” “Predict Gradient (best)”, other boxes unchecked, with size:720X480.
--Edit in MSPro6.5
--Create .AVI file with MSPro6.5, same settings as capture.
--Load this .AVI file into TMPGenc and convert to MPEG-1 as VCD, NTSC, non-interlace, aspect 1:1 (VGA), noise reduction, sharpen edge, full screen, CDR 80. And by unlocking frame size feature I set it to 640X480 and set the bit rate to Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR).
Like I said, the final video seems pretty good when I play it with Windows Media Player, Real Player and a player in ATI. QuickTime is very jerky, unless I import the file and export it as a .MOV file. But this makes the file larger than I want.
I’d appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
After a LOT of experimenting I am getting what looks good to me, but I have a nagging
thought that somehow I’m missing something obvious. Will someone please critique what I’m doing?
(My system: Pentium 4, 1.82 GHz, 768 MB Ram, 60g & 40g NTFS HD’s, AIW 8500DV capture card, soundblaster)
--Capture from Canon ZR-60 DV to Ulead Capture. I haven’t been able to find any setting to adjust so I think it is raw DV type-1, 720X480. I tried to capture in VirtualDub but my AIW card doesn’t seem to like it. I tried installing a VFW wrapper, but this must not be the problem. So, of all the capture facilities I have tried, Ulead’s works the best for me right now.
--Save in Ulead Capture as .AVI with Huffy v2.1.1. Under the Huffy “Options” I select “Predict Median (best),” “Predict Gradient (best)”, other boxes unchecked, with size:720X480.
--Edit in MSPro6.5
--Create .AVI file with MSPro6.5, same settings as capture.
--Load this .AVI file into TMPGenc and convert to MPEG-1 as VCD, NTSC, non-interlace, aspect 1:1 (VGA), noise reduction, sharpen edge, full screen, CDR 80. And by unlocking frame size feature I set it to 640X480 and set the bit rate to Automatic VBR (CQ_VBR).
Like I said, the final video seems pretty good when I play it with Windows Media Player, Real Player and a player in ATI. QuickTime is very jerky, unless I import the file and export it as a .MOV file. But this makes the file larger than I want.
I’d appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
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