Vcd Autoring Software

[booma]

Hi. Can anyone suggest any decent vcd authoring software. I am currently using NTI cd & dvd-maker 7, which came with my machine, but am unhappy with its results.

I am trying to burn a 5 min video presentation, so memory is not a problem but my burner still drastically compresses the video . This is unacceptable and it offers me no options.

What can I do?

B

Edited July 19, 2008 by booma

[Veazer]

Hi. Can anyone suggest any decent vcd authoring software. I am currently using NTI cd & dvd-maker 7, which came with my machine, but am unhappy with its results.

I am trying to burn a 5 min video presentation, so memory is not a problem but my burner still drastically compresses the video . This is unacceptable and it offers me no options.

What can I do?

B

What is your target audience, is it absolutely necessary to use VCD format? By nature, VCD is a rather lossy low quality format. Are the discs going to be used on standalone VCD players only? PCs? If they're going to be used on PCs, you have a lot of better options.

If you're forced to use VCD format, TMPGEnc Plus is considered to have very high video quality.

[Jiu-Jitsu]

Have you considered SVCD, as it's closer to DVD quality? VCD is comparable to the old VHS videotape quality.

More info here.

I use Nero for such things. 15 day trial.

[Plus]

SVCD is the way to go if you can't use DVDs.

I haven't done it in over a year, but I remember that first I encoded videos with DVDx - you can manually select your size and other options, then I think I used Nero to author the disk, or, I suppose, NTI cd maker would do just fine - it's the lack of control over the encoding that makes these programs so lame.