Making Video CD's

[reball01]

Good Morning,

I'm using Pinnacle's Studio DC10+ for video editing and a Sony CD-RW drive. The software I'm using to burn CD's is Sony's CD Extreme (software came with the burner). There is a function that allows me to make Video CD's through Extreme but each time I try to copy my .avi files the software skips the function entirely.

Each time Extreme rejects the file it informs me that the .avi file isn't within the proper parameters (352 x 240 size, 44.1 khz audio, etc.) to make a Video CD. I've adjusted the parameters to fit the requirements but Extreme still rejects writing it to a CD-R AS A VIDEO CD.

Granted, I can still write these .avi files to the burner simply as data but I'd like to be able to playback video directly from the CD-R.

Any help you can provide is appreciated. I don't know where else to put this question so I apologize if it's out of place.

Thanks,

reball01

[RJ]

Hello,

Video CD's have their video streams in MPEG-1 encoding (with resolution of 352x288 pixels).
If you want to make a Video CD, you need a MPEG-1 encoder unless your video editing software doesn't contain one.

There also is a better format out there, the Super Video CD. That has video strams in MPEG-2 encoding with a resolution of 480x576 pixels, that means 2/3 of the DVD video format (720x576 pixels).

Choose what you want, in eighter case I recommend the Tsunami MPEG Encoder. It's a powerful freeware MPEG encoder.

http://www.jamsoft.com/tmpgenc/

The V12a supports MPEG2 encoding, too. Because that encoder is japanese originally you also need the english patch, which also can be found on that site.

If you burn just the AVI files to CD as a data cd, then you still can watch them directly from CD, but only on PC. Video CDs and Super Video CDs also can be watched in (well, not all, but many) DVD-Players.

Hope this helps.

RJ

[Edited by RJ on 03-14-2001 at 11:32 AM]