How do you make best VCD in FCP 2.0?

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Hey everyone. I just finished editing my band's first music video on Final Cut Pro 2.0 and want to burn it onto a VCD to hand out at our shows, etc. I've tried two things to get this to work...

1) Exported a video CD file from FCP 2, which I then burnt in Roxio Toast. Playback was very pixelly and lo-res and the soundtrack was slower than the picture.

2) Exported a maximum res. QT movie which I then converted to MPG in Roxio toast. Similarly, the soundtrack is a little off cue and the res is still too crappy to realy put out there for the peeps to eat.

Any suggestions and/or ideas on things to try would be wholly welcome and appreciated.

mugs, GOD-The Band

PS - If yer curious, check out the video at http://godtheband.com - it's a fun number and features NYC in all its glory...

-- Mugwump (godtheband@yahoo.com), September 19, 2002

Answers

I don't know anything about FCP. Maybe it's not very good? Don't know. How did you record your video source? If your video source is not very good, that will lead to a VCD not being very good. It could be that the editing functions are not very good. http://www.womble.com has a MPEG-1 only editor for $50 that is quite good. The MPEG-1/2 editor costs about $250 I think, but if you want to only make VCD, you can download the demo version and try it out. The demo version only edits MPEG-1 video. Roxio has a bad rep in the video world. EZ CD Creator was pretty crummy. I don't know about Toast, but it may not be any better. Nero (http://www.ahead.de) makes a fine burning program you can download and demo for a month. QT is pretty poor quality under the best of circumstances. It looks OK on PCs because it uses low resolutions, but once you convert it like you did, you see the limitations of the format. By the way, the editor at www.womble.com allows you to mux (multiplex) the audio forwards or backwards in the muxing and you can fix a lot of sync issues that way. Good luck.

-- Root (root@yahoo.com), September 19, 2002.

I GET GOOD RESULTS BY CAPTURING MY VIDEO WITH A VIDEO CATURE CARD INTO MPEG1 AT A 6BIT RATE THEN UNSING TMPGENC DOWNLOAD USE THE WIZARD AND MAKE INTO A VCD COMPATIBLE MPEG FILE WHICH YOU CAN BURN WITH ANY PROGRAM THAT LETS YOU MAKE VCDS I USE NERO. I USED TO GET SOUND/VIDEO SYNC PROBLEMS LIKE YOU BUT I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE OF MY SLOW 500MHZPC. NOW THAT I HAVE AN AMD2000+ THAT PROBLEM IS GONE. TRY THIS BUT IF IT DOESNT WORK GET A HARDWARE ENCODER LIKE ONE MADE BY DAZZLE. DAN

-- daniel (bonl1@cs.com), September 19, 2002.

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