Q on D2S's help in automating the svcd production process compared to this

[equilibrium]

Don't turn off after reading the next line plz. ;)

I want to transfer some Digital8 movies to SVCD.
A mate of mine sent me details of his usual route for doing this:

1) Use the vidcap program that came with the capture card to obtain the video AVI.
2) Run this AVI through Virtual Dub using the Deinterlace filter - because it's going to be an SVCD and not destined for video tape.
3) Load my converted AVI into Premier and edit it using Premier.
4) Once I'm happy with my creation I then use a thing called AVISync to frameserve. If you select file->export->Movie in premier you get a chance via settings to select Video Server (if you installed the plugin).
5) I start the frameserver going and then
6) I fire up LSX encoder that does a brain dead SVCD creation and select the server file as the input and click go..
7) Hours later I use Nero to create an SVCD project and drag my SVCD file and burn.
8) Hey presto - About 2 days after starting the process I've got my SVCD!!!! :)


I can't find definitive feedback on the AVI2SVCD option under the Misc tab around here, it is talked about in relation to converting Divx.

Could the process above be simplfied by pointing D2S at the edited .avi and running it through D2S using AVI2SVCD?

Also could the .avi be edited in Premier and setup for D2S without running it through VirtualDub to de-interlace because D2S could do that later and if so which would be the best PAL option for this kind of de-interlacing.

I assume that the audio processing doesn't happen in quite the same way with this kind of work as I'm guessing the audio is mixed in with the video already? I haven't tried any of this yet myself but wanted to this evening, as all these different methods can be V time consuming I thought I check here first.

Thank u all very much in advance for any feedback you may have ( as long as it's not rude) :p

Equilibrium

[sandchar99]

Hello equilibrium.

I have some answers for you but I am no expert (especially regarding Adobe Premiere).

I am gearing up for a large project involving Sony DV (Digital8) video (NTSC). So far I have just played with settings on relatively small segments 1-5 minutes. These test were done before DVD2SVCD 1.0.8.1 came out (I used 1.0.7.4) and also note that DVD2SVCD acknowledges that AVI2SVCD is still in "beta/buggy" stage.

1) Capture through Adobe Premiere 6.0. I use Firewire to capture.

2) Edit with Adobe Premiere or just save your individual segment AVIs.

3) Premiere does not create AVIs that can be used by DVD2SVCD. So use the free download Canopus_DV_File_Converter.exe to convert the AVI file to Canopus Edit Compatible AVI (AVI 1). I hear using Canopus to convert to MS DV (AVI 2) also works. I was not able to get the AVI2SVCD integrated Canopus DV to convert the unconverted Premiere AVI because it would not even load in the conversion tab.

4) Open the converted AVI in AVI2SVCD (DVD2SVCD). I use the following settings: Bicubic c=C0.60, CCE CBR at 2400, Antinoise 5 or 10, no TemporalSmoother, Smart Deinterlace (default setting), "Do not create images" and everything else default. You may need to edit your AVS file, I did some footage using the 16:9 function on the DV camcorder. AVI2SVCD did not recognize this even when I moved the setting to 16:9 under conversion tab. I had edit the AVS file to Bicubic resize to 480,360 and AddBorders 60,60.

5) Use VCDEasy 1.09 to add the individual MPEG2 segments, create the bin/cues and burn using the integrated CDRDAO burner.

Hope this helps


PS you should perhaps change your "post subject" to better reflect your question, i.e "AVI2SVCD, DV, Premier...common settings?"

PPS Perhaps you could help me with the export settings for Adobe Premiere so that I would not have to go through the Canopus conversion step.

[stelch]

What I am using, and get near perfect results, is ADS Pyro Firewire capture card,ULead Video Studio 6.0 and MovieFactory(plug-in inside VideoStudio)for editing and burning. So easy to use and the results are great.

[equilibrium]

Thx's very much both of you for taking the time to reply. I'll look into all this options.

I'm afraid I can't give much feedback yet on Premier export settings as requested, because as I said in my post I haven't tried any of this yet and just wanted some guide b4 I did.

Someone on IRC last night was also recommending Vegas Video 3 which I will also look into.

I will start a new thread with feedback on all the findings when I've had a chance to play.

Thanks again

Equilibrium

PS topic title changed as suggested sandchar99 ;)