[MacDV] Re: s-video to DVD-r

[Zane H. Healy]

Personally I'm against using Toast as well, but not because of audio sync problems (I didn't see any in the 45 minute test disk I made).  I was most displeased with the quality.  I tried Toast and all the free solutions I could find, and not a single one could produce a decent quality VCD.  They all had way to much pixalization.  I'll continue to make my VCD's on my WinXP system, even though it takes 4-6 hours to encode 30 minutes of video, since by using TMPGenc Plus, I'm able to get better results than some of my *Commercial* DVD's!  I can't wait for the G5 version of Virtual PC, as I want to see how fast I can encode video using TMPGenc on a G5 2x2.

The sad thing is, it looks like it's cheaper to buy a dirt cheap PC and spend $50 on TMPGenc Plus, than it is to buy a decent MPEG1 encoded for the Mac!  I find this very frustrating as I was hoping to switch back to only using the Mac once I got my G5.

			Zane


>Eric has been very adamant about not using Toast 6 to burn VCD's because of audio synching problems. Is it only when buring VCD's from iMovie that the synching problem occurs? I have been using Toast, both 5 and 6, to burn VCD's since February of this year. All play fine, but I am burning my EyeTV recordings. The VCD format works well because most of the programs I am recording are a half hour in length. The recording quality works fine for programs recorded off of TV. The only audio synch problems I have had have been with an early version of the EyeTV software, but that problem has been fixed. I have gone back and played several of the CD's in my sony dvd player and on my computer and they show no out of synch audio.
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>I have been hesitant about upgrading Toast 5 on my laptop with the superdrive because of the problems that Eric has talked about. I have Toast 6 on my G4 Cube with no DVD burner, just an external CD burner and it works fine.
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>On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 05:20  AM, Eric Phillips wrote:
>
>>Be careful about using Toast 6. I don't know how well it works to make
>>DVDs but if you want VCD or SVCD it sucks. I have been trying to find
>>out if anyone else has any experience with Toast 6 but no one will admit
>>to using it so I don't know if it is only my problem or a bug in Toast.
>>Toast 5.2.1 works great for making VCD but you can't do SVCD with it.
>>The problem is the audio sync when encoding either VCD format. I have
>>tried all the latest updates to QT, iMovie and Toast but non of these
>>has fixed the problem. If you do want SVCD I would go with iVCD. I am
>>not sure where I found the program but I am sure you could find it at
>>Version Tracker. You will have to pay the shareware fee to remove the
>>watermark form the encoded video.
>>
>>Good Luck,
>>Eric
>>
>>>>>brucewll at comcast.net 11/29/2003 5:17:24 PM >>>
>>I'd like a recommendation or two concerning importing video from S-vhs
>>tape into a Mac G4 system. What is needed since the signal comes via
>>composite video (or S cable) instead of Firewire?
>>
>>We want to edit footage using iMovie3 & then burn the final copy to
>>disc
>>using Toast 6 (or iDVD if that's better).
>>
>>Thanks ahead listers,
>>
>>Bruce

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