Has any one experience of producing CD videos
I want to create 1 hour Cd from Digital tape
I need the qualtity to remain as high as possiblee, and am looking into the options
of compression. So far I have read about
Dazzle, Snazzi, Broadway, DVmpeg.
As I have all the editing software I need
I do not need a compression card bundled
with lots of software.
There seems to be lots of different methods
of compressing video and lots of different
prices to pay. Has anyone any suggestions
on this matter?
I have Adaptec CD Creator.
Ann
I've tried a lot of methods, none have been perfect. The best solution so far has been a Dazzle unit (I have the parralel port version). The results are acceptable but not perfect. Do you intend to use the VIDEO CD format ? If so I dont think you will get an hour onto a single CD, I may be wrong however. Pinnacle have just brought out a new MPEG unit called the MP10 which may be better than the Dazzle, I don't know, I have not had the best experiences with Pinnacles products !
I also own a Dazzle DVC. I had the Parallel Port but I traded it in for the USB, cuz the USB handles 12MG/sec data flow. Unfortunately, the USB version is REALLY buggy on my computer, whereas the EPP version worked fine. You can record with a video bitrate of up to 300,000 but the editing Video Studio from Ulead that comes bundled only handles up to 150,000, so I don't see the purpose of recording if you are going to do any kind of titles, effects, etc.. to your clips. Finding a good software editing program that imports MPG seems to be difficult right now for me.
Tim.
Tim,
USB doesn't handle 12Megabytes/sec (which is what I assume you meant), it handles 12Megabits!
That is 1.5Megabytes/sec - and only HALF the speed of an ECP/EEP parallel port,which can handle 3Megabytes/sec.
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Bob C
[This message has been edited by bcrabtree (edited 28-04-99).]
I have just bought the Pinnacle MP10 and I am very happy with it. The quality is excellent and the hardware encoding is pretty quick, its not so quick to convert existing avi's. My only drawback has been copying direct to cd, I think this is due to my CDR not being supported but I can create a VideoCD using WINONCD software. It can create hot spots in a opening screen that will take you straight to the Video track that you require, it is pretty imressive stuff and should follow the white paper on video CD. Pinnacle also have a good discussion board on :
http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
best regards
Steve Allen
I recently converted 40 mins of captured footage (using Fast AV Master to capture ) and converted it to MPEG which took a staggering 12 HOURS! Then burnt to CD. The finished file was 360Mb and quality good. Before the fast card I had the ATM moviestar card which was cheap and cheerful but captured excellent quality mpeg.