[pfwilson]

I've been creating VCD's using Toast 5 in conjunction with iMovie and found the quality very poor, I know that they're supposed to be the same quality as VHS but these are V poor, I guess it's down to the codecs used in the exporting from iMovie but is there anyway I can improve the quality?

[edavis]

I'm sure that I cannot help, but I am curious. Are you using Toast 5 Titanium, the commercial version, or Toast 5 that comes pre-packaged with a CD-RW drive?

My understanding is that you need to spend the bucks to cut VCD's. The 'light' version that comes standard with many drives won't fill the bill.

[edavis]

I'm sure that I cannot help, but I am curious. Are you using Toast 5 Titanium, the commercial version, or Toast 5 that comes pre-packaged with a CD-RW drive?

My understanding is that you need to spend the bucks to cut VCD's. The 'light' version that comes standard with many drives won't fill the bill.

[pfwilson]

Yeah I'm using the full version. Was disappointed with the quality of VCD's, I could live with something about the same quality as VHS but not worse....

[ph@lmi.net]

my results with toast and freevcd have been very poor. i have not yet found a way to convert to the proper mpeg format using mac os 9 or mac os x tools (a la ffmpeg) - so i have been unable to adjust the mpeg conversion parameters (to try and burn a better VCD).

but i'd think a format that records 1 hour on 650MB can't be _that_ good anyway.