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forkies · Jun 20, 2002, 01:31 AM

A ton of Deep Space Nine episodes were shown an a WB station, and I was able to record most of them. I would like to create VCDs or SVCDs of the episodes, one per CD. I need some help with the following:

First I should capture them in FCP as DV, right?</li>
I'd like to have menus like on DVDs.</li>
I recorded on VHS at SP speed. I read VCD = VHS quality. Is this true? I made a VCD with Toast, and the quality was not acceptable at areas of high motion. Should I go with SVCDs instead?</li>
What app do I use to make SCVDs?</li>
How do I encode into the format for SVCDs?</li>
I have read through some web sites that describe how to make SVCDs, but they are confusing as hell. Is there any guide I can follow to make this process easier?
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I would greatly appreciate any help on this. This is one of the projects I have planned for this summer, and I'd like to get started. Thanks!

forkies · Jul 6, 2002, 11:51 AM

Any help at all?

beb · Jul 6, 2002, 02:09 PM

Why not just use Toast Titanium and make DVDs?

lucylawless · Jul 6, 2002, 06:07 PM

I assume that means he doesn't have a dvd burner.

I've never tried making an SVCD, but I hear your best bet is something called Missing MPEG Tools, which I've seen on versiontracker. I'd try them out, but my mac has been offline for a month and I'm still stuck in windows-land (it's not the mac's fault; my phone line is out). I think you'll still have to do some trial and error, though. If you want the simplicity of Toast's VCD plugin, you'll have to settle for the default settings...

jac · Jul 7, 2002, 07:54 AM

<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/" target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/</a>

You'll find what you need there.

l008com · Jul 7, 2002, 10:59 AM

I don't know how you're goona get from VHS to your computer, but however you're goona do it, you should have used that method to go right to your computer ( a $400 DV encoder is the only way i can think of) then just drop each file into media Cleaner and go through all the setting, make a 2-pass VBR 700 MB sorenson quicktime movie with QDesign 2 audio. It should play on any machine with quicktime 5 or more I believe. And the quality should be great.