[Jaz Cheah]

Dear Aharon,

Just want to thank you for your advise. We have finally solve the problem by using SVCD. The quality is not much difference compare to DVD, my worried is on the compatibility.

The reason why we do not use DVD is because our charges for DVD is more expensive compare to VCD. If the customer willing to pay extra then we can give them a DVD.

Thanks again.

Jaz

[Jaz Cheah]

If is a 2-pass MPEG2, should i work on SVCD instead of VCD? What is the bit rate for MPEG2-SVCD? Constant or variable bit rate? Why SVCD is not that popular?(Especially in Malaysia)

Thanks again!

[Jaz Cheah]

Dear Zak Kingston,

Thanks for your valuable advice. I am Kim’s colleagues who is also working on the wedding video album project.

We have played back the VCD on TV, the quality was not up to the acception mark. We have rendered uncompressed AVI from AE, it took abt 8GB and the quality was great. But when we use conversion program like Sorenson Sqeeze 4.1, Sony Vegas Studio 4.0 or some other AVI to VCD converter to but a VCD compliant MPEG file, the quality dropped tremendously. We seriously need solution to solve this problem.

We have tried on QT render Animation best setting or no compression, but the *.mov file was also not that clear.

We will consider to work on SVCD instead of VCD

[Jaz Cheah]

First of all, thanks for your valuable advice.

We have tried to render uncompressed AVI from AE, took out 8GB HDD space and quality was great. But when i converted by using sorenson sqeeze 4.1 preset VCD-NTSC compression profile the MPEG-1 file was not clear at all. Even i have tried with Sony Vegas Studio 4.0 and AVI to VCD SVCD & DVD Converter, the results were also not clear. I remember your last few messages said we can render from sorenson using 2-pass setting, but in the preset profile it does not have the option for me to change from 1-pass to 2-pass……

[Jaz Cheah]

So far have not try out on uncompressed yet…. file size too huge… but i will try this time.

“That’s not the same as the Quicktime Best settings – The Quicktime quality settings are a choice between highe quality images vs. smaller file size.” – In the render queue – output module, am I going to render as .mov file? if yes, do i need to change the setting?

So sorry for the question i had post just now. The size for the composition i use in AE is 720 x 480, but when come to VCD format is 352 x 240, during the render and conversion change of the size will it effect the quality of the video? or i should work on the composition size same as the Video CD size(352 x 240)?

Is AE suitable to use for Wedding album, because we are use wedding photo to work out a video, some of my frieds recommend Macromedia Flash, what is your opinion?

Thanks again.

[Jaz Cheah]

Dear Aharon Rabinowitz,

Thanks for your prompt reply and valueable information. I understand using uncompressed option really take out a lot of space, but if i have no choice then i will do so. Beside that i have tested with quicktime and i choose uncompressed or animation best setting also the video is not so clear during playback in Quicktime player. Anyway I will give a try on your suggestion.

I have another question here, if my composition using 720×480(DVD reso.) and the output AVI file eventually is bigger size (correct me if i am wrong), if later i convert to VCD and the reso. is lower, will the quality better compare using 352 x 240 composition??? Because currently our Video templete is in 720 x 480 reso to cater for DVD Video, but sometimes the templete also use for Video CD, just would like to understand more on the difference. (Of course we would like to do anything to improve the quality.)

Thanks again. I am appreciate your help and hope to hear from you soon.

Jaz