I decided to create this thread in response to the thread called iMovie.
My problem is that I have also been working to create some VCD's and I have found the quality offered in Toast 5's VCD Export extension for iMovie to produce lousy quality VCD's.
I tried exporting a Full Frame, 29.97fps high quality movie from iMovie and got a 4GIG export for a 21 minute episode of 'The Job". I then used Media Cleaner 5.0.2 to create an MPEG 1 movie for VCD and it took about 12 hours to export it thru Media Cleaner. I wound up with a 220MB movie.
The movie looked great on my computer through QT Player but when I created a VCD using Toast 5 with it it still looked pixelated as hell.
I am very interested in finding out how to produce good quality VCD's since they cost a faction of DVD and hold as much video as iDVD produced movies, about 70 minutes.
Try looking at
www.vcdhelp.com, although there is a lot of information most of it is for Windows uses using Nero to create VCD's.
If anyone knows how to create good VCD's please post it here.
By the way, after crunching a 4GIG iMovie exported QT movie I totally wrecked my hard drive and I am now in the process of doing a Zero wipe.
I think it's a good idea to invest in an external Firwire drive for this, seems like you'll have to defrag the drive after each job.
John Manzione
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