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find me an easy way to make a videocd on my mac
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I really want to turn some of my old vhs tapes into videocd's to view on my dvd player...awhile back i bought this interview thing in hopes to make some kind of cd with video on it...i have thought about buying a dvd-r burner or even buying software to compress into mpeg's then convert to whatever format you need for videocds...i found a few sites online with info on the subject but they are all old and dont really make much sense to me...anyways if anyone knows an easy way to do this let me know thanks alot
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After looking around you may come to a different conclusion but here is what I have come up with.
The free versions of the codecs don't seem to do as nice a job as I had hoped. They are OK. Sorenson 3 is actually quite nice. However, to get rid of artifacts, de-interlace video from TV, and compress more optimally you need pro software. Probably Media Cleaner Pro or the new package from Sorenson. Either way, I think you'll spend about $400 on software and $200 to $400 on something to digitize the old tapes.
Maybe after QT 6 comes out things will be better.
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Originally posted by neutrino23:
<STRONG>After looking around you may come to a different conclusion but here is what I have come up with.
The free versions of the codecs don't seem to do as nice a job as I had hoped. They are OK. Sorenson 3 is actually quite nice. However, to get rid of artifacts, de-interlace video from TV, and compress more optimally you need pro software. Probably Media Cleaner Pro or the new package from Sorenson. Either way, I think you'll spend about $400 on software and $200 to $400 on something to digitize the old tapes.
Maybe after QT 6 comes out things will be better.</STRONG>
don't confuse the man. he want's to make a video cd to play in his set-top dvd player. That means (1) his dvd player needs to support VCD (most do, some don't), and (2) his video needs to be burned into the exacting standard that is VCD: 352x240 resolution, 29.97 fps, and some bitrate of video and audio I don't know off the top of my head. This is all in MPEG1 by the way. The codecs mentioned above are only relevant to quicktime movies (*.mov files). Also, don't try to encode to MPEG then comply with the VCD spec. The encoding step is where you need to do that.
This has been discussed at length, but to summarize, you want Toast Titanium by Roxio. for about $99 it comes with a VCD export plugin for quicktime or iMovie, which means that any movie you can play in Quicktime Pro, you can make a VCD from if you have the patience.
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any suggestions on the importing of the video?
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You said you have the Interview for that. if that doesn't meet your needs, there are firewire devices available from Dazzle, Formac and Sony, but they're probably about 2-3x as expensive as what you paid for the Interview (this a usb gizmo, right?)
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Originally posted by macthelastredman:
<STRONG>I really want to turn some of my old vhs tapes into videocd's to view on my dvd player...awhile back i bought this interview thing in hopes to make some kind of cd with video on it...i have thought about buying a dvd-r burner or even buying software to compress into mpeg's then convert to whatever format you need for videocds...i found a few sites online with info on the subject but they are all old and dont really make much sense to me...anyways if anyone knows an easy way to do this let me know thanks alot</STRONG>
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Here's my suggestion: don't do it. VCD sucks. At BEST you'll get less-than-VCR quality.
What I did was import my videotapes into my Mac and just made my own DVDs. Makes life a lot easier, and the loss in quality is MUCH less than creating that crappy VCD format.
As an experiment, I took footage from my new Sony digital camcorder, and made a video CD using Final Cut Pro. The quality was AWFUL. I then made a DVD and compared the two. Night and day.
If you make a video CD, you're going to kick yourself for wasting all that time doing so. The quality sucks. REALLY sucks.
Mike
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being that i dont have a dvd-r or the money to buy one i'll just roll with watching my old doctor who on vhs. maybe get a G4 imac with superdrive someday...thanks for the help all
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