Writing vcd or svcd to dvd

Bugsyboy · Post by **Bugsyboy** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:52 pm

Hi

I'm a newbie so forgive please this basic question.

I want to write svc or vcd to a dvd so I can have a good few hours of video. However VS7 makes me choose the output format as either dvd or svcd and then renders in that format. I want to render in svcd and write to dvd. Is this possible? Any suggestions.

Thank you

Bugsyboy

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:59 pm

Neither VCD nor SVCD video is compliant with the DVD spec, so you would need to re-render it.

Your best choice would be to render in Half D1 / CIF format, this is close in both resolution and bitrate to the quality you get from VCD or SVCD. You'd be able to fit several hours of this onto a DVD, and each of the original source VCD/SVCD files could be a chapter in the DVD menu so you can choose which to play.

Bugsyboy · Post by **Bugsyboy** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 5:43 pm

Thank you for your reply. However I don not appear to have the option available to render in the format you describe? I have VS7. Is that option available in a different version?

Bugsyboy

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:56 pm

If you have a version of UVS that supports output to DVD, it will also support Half D1 / CIF resolution, but you will have to customize the output settings -- the default templates that Ulead supplies simply output in full DVD resolution at bitrates of 8000, 6000, and 4000 Kbps, which is what most people want.

If you are going to do this more often, use the Template Manager to create a new template for that resolution.

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 11:01 pm

THoff wrote:Neither VCD nor SVCD video is compliant with the DVD spec, so you would need to re-render it.

The video portion is for VCD, if your going from a pre-made VCD you only need to reencode the audio from 44hz to 48hz to make it compliant. How or if you can with VS8 I don't know.

@Bugsyboy if your goal is to fit a lot of video on a single disc try creating a cutom template with the following attributes.

MPEG-2
352 x 240 @ 2000 to 3000 VBR (variable bit rate)

You need to adjust the bitrate which is the most important factor in file size. Be aware the lower you go the lower the quality.

Bugsyboy · Post by **Bugsyboy** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:16 am

Gentlemen

I have followed your advice and it has worked!!
Thank you so much for your assistance.

Bugsyboy

thecoalman · Post by **thecoalman** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:28 am

BTW if you want higher quality video use 720x480 @4000 - 8000 VBR. 6000 VBR wil yield about 1.5 hours on a 4.7 gb DVD and will give you very good results for VHS or low end Digital source.

using anything higher than 4000 with 352x240 will not yield any better results than using just 4000 and dropping below 4000 when using 720x480 will result in poor quality video.