What format for Video CD's?

[Rob94hawk]

My portable DVD player plays Video CD's but I can't seem to burn a CD that will play my Daughters project video that was shot on Digital 8.

I tried Windows Movie maker and TMPGenc but nothing will play.

What am I doing wrong?

My Daughter needs her project for tomorrow! Thanx

 

[ty1er]

if you have Nero that will burn VCDs, and if the video files are not in the correct format it will convert them into the proper VCD mpeg format.

check out http://www.videohelp.com/ for all your dvd/vcd/svcd/etc etc needs.

 

[Rob94hawk]

Thanx, forgot I had nero express, however........

I burned the 1st vcd at 32x. Mistake. Nothing read it.

Burned the 2nd vcd at 4x. Video and sound not syncronized! WTF?

Any ideas?

 

[AnitaPeterson]

did you try to edit the clips?

 

[Rob94hawk]

The whole 2 minute clip was edited. It plays fine on Windows media player from start to finish.

I emailed Nero to see if they have an answer.

 

[Mnementh]

Originally posted by: Rob94hawk
The whole 2 minute clip was edited. It plays fine on Windows media player from start to finish.

I emailed Nero to see if they have an answer.

Windows media player is not the best app for testing these things on. how did you get the file from your camcorder (I assume) to the PC? In what format?

De-synced video and audio can be caused by numerous things however it's very rarely caused by the burning process itself (if ever), it's caused during the encoding process normally due to timing errors with the audio or bad/missing frames. I would advise you not to use Nero to encode the clip if it is not already in the correct format, you will get much better results using tmpgenc and have more control over any issues. There are plenty of excellent guides for doing what you want to do on www.doom9.org, it's not something you can just jump into and expect the software to do everything for you unfortunately you have to put a little bit of effort into it. Honestly the best thing you could do is read some of the stuff on doom9 and play around with the software they recommend on there. A 2 minute video clip shouldn't take long to encode so you don't have to worry too much about making mistakes just keep going until you get it right

 

[Rob94hawk]

Originally posted by: Mnementh

how did you get the file from your camcorder (I assume) to the PC? In what format?

I used Windows Movie Maker.

Pinnacle 9 was mentioned as a good editor. I'm going to check that out as well as doom9. thanx

 

[Lonyo]

Try demuxing the audio and video, and having them as two seperate parts then making a VCD out of it.
That way the snyc problems might be solved.