Capture from S-VHS cam, edit and convert to high quality SVCD

[francisroy]

Hi all,

I'm planing to convert my S-VHS tape (from a JVC camera) to high quality SVCD. I need help because I'm very disappointed with the final movie quality. :(

I use virtualub to capture. I choose the 720x480 YUY2 format with the huffyuv codec at best quality. I have no drop frame.

Then I edit the avi file in Ulead VideoStudio 6. I keep the final project in the original format (i.e 720x480 avi)

I process the final avi file in DVD2SCVD (ver. 1.0.7 b4) using the AVI2SVCD option.

When I play back the movie on my standalone DVD (Sanyo DVD-7201). The quality is bad. I have a lot of blocks around people and in "action" scenes too. I have converted a lot of dvd movies using DVD2SVCD and I'm very happy with the final result, the quality is EXCELENT... :D

Why when I convert an avi file that I have captured from my cam the quality is so bad ?

Do I need to capture in 480x480 or another resolution to get better results ? I tried to apply some filters in Virtualdub (smart smoother, denoise and others) that's better but ....

Do I need to de-interlace ? Invert Telecine ? Is it better to edit the movie before applying some filters ?

Here is my Hardware:

Amd Thunderbird 900MHz
384MB ram
2 Maxtor harddisk (30 and 60gig)
WindowsXP pro
WinTV Go (with the universal WDM optimized driver)

Thanks
p.s. excuse my bad english !

[unit01]

Hi Francis,


You can de-interlace to capture video if you like cause it's definately interlaced from a s-video analog camera you would not want to use any telecine plugins however in theory you should be able to select interlaced mpeg2 in your encoding software I know Tmpgenc and Cinemacraft support this for sure dunno about avi2mpg.


Also if you truely wanna encode for making to svcd specs you must resize to 480 x 576 for pal I think some pioneer players prefer / will work with 352 x 576.



Some food for thought anyway good luck with your svcd making :)


John