Adobe Premiere video to a VCD

[Junior1544]

I have taken video from my dv camera (a Panisonic) and firewired it into Adobe. Every thing looked good.
(p3 500 mhz, 256 megs of ram, 60 gig hard drive, and windows 2k)

Then I encoded it to an MPG to turn it into a VCD. Every thing still looked fine.

Then after I burned it to the CD, and I played it in my dvd player, The video looked good and the audio looked good.
One problem. The video Snaked. It looked fine and all execpt for the snaking... Any idea's as to what I can do, what to check. This was my first project with Premiere and I have no idea's where to go.

Thanks.

--James
junior1544@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[WizyWyg]

Snaking? How does a video snake?


If you mean shaking, thne its just that mpeg1 (vcd format) just plain sucks.

Look into making SVCD's instead.

 

[Junior1544]

no, it's not shaking... It looks like a box of pixels get's scrambled (fairly small box) and then goes around a bit adding to itself... then goes back to normal... I've seen it do that right on the camera when i've recorded in LP mode (mistake i made when i first got the camera...)

Any thoughts... I havn't seen it happen on the computer at all, but then again, I don't know much about premiere...

--James
junior1544@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[Junior1544]

oh, yea... what's a SVCD?? Where would I go to look into it more??

--James junior1544@jmjpc.net
Life is change. To deny change is to deny life.

 

[WizyWyg]

pixelazation in vcd (mpeg1) is the nature of that format. It has to take a video at 352 by 240 and make it so you can fit a 30 min episode on 80 min of disc space. A lot of sacrifices will have to be made as far as quality goes to do so (in uncompressed aVI, a 30 min file will be over 1.6 gbs).

As far as SVCD goe,s you need an mpeg2 encoder (ie Tsunami Mpeg Encoder . pay for the mpeg2 to render in it), but its on par with vhs quality.

 

[LRSmith]

VCD is MPEG-1 compliant, while SVCD (Super VCD) is MPEG-2 compliant. Look at

http://www.vcdhelp.us

for more information.

Before going through the effort of creating a SVCD, check out

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdplayers

to ensure your DVD player will support SVCD format. While many DVD players support VCD format, only newer DVD players will support SVCD formats. Good luck.