[MacDV] Re: VCD Beautiful Breakdown of the procedure

[Illovox Media]

Thank you Kunga for this extremely clear and helpful breakdown.  Do you have
a similar procedural for those of us who use OS 9 on some machines?  I have
both. and would love to try this on a 3400 I've set up for mobile video
work.  I realize there will be a huge speed differential.

on 2/15/03 2:35 PM, Thubten Kunga at Kunga at FutureMedia.org wrote:

> Make SVCDs instead.
> 
> Part One The Encoder
> 
> ffmpegXv0.0.6f Installation and Operation Tutorial by Kunga part 1
> 
> I spent a lot of time getting the multi-format encoder ffmpegXv0.0.6f
> working this morning. Link to it is at the bottom of this message. I
> thought I'd share how to install it with everyone just in case you run
> into the problems I did. It works beautifully if you get it configured
> correctly. That is the trick.
> 
> 1. The ffmpegXv0.0.6f download that you get from
> <http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/
> default?user=major4&templatefn=FileSharing1.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.1.xml&
> sitefn=RootSite.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en> is not all you need to
> download.
> 
> 2. You also must download the "Last Binary" Folder from this link which
> activates an auto download when you get there.
> <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerosx/lastbinary.sit?download>
> Unstuffit.
> 
> 3. You mount (if it didn't auto mount) the ffmpegX_0.0.6f.dmg-link.dmg
> disk image
> 
> 4. I copied the entire disk image to my Applications‹>Video
> Applications Folder (option drag to prevent an alias only copy).
> 
> 5. Put the "last binary 090203" Folder in that new ffmpegX folder as
> well.
> 
> 6. Download the text file "mpeg2enc" which comes in as "mpeg2enc.txt"
> from <http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/MacOS/>
> (option-click the link and choose "Save link on the disk")
> 
> 7. Put it in the ffmpegX folder too.
> 
> 8. Run the ffmpegX engines installer where you press locate buttons for
> "mpeg2enc.txt" first, then the other two which are inside the last
> binary 090203 folder. Then press Install and watch the Terminal program
> ask you for your password and hit return and watch for the words
> "Installation Successful".
> 
> 9. Now you are ready for the easy part: Encoding your first SVCD file.
> Launch ffmpegX0.0.6f and pull down at the bottom where it says "Quick
> Presets" to "SVCD (NTSC)".
> 
> 10. At the top press the "Open..." button and choose your iMovie 3 Full
> Quality DV Export file.
> 
> 11. Right under that press the "Save As..." button and give your SVCD
> file a name.
> 
> 12. Press the "Encode" button in the lower right corner of the
> interface box.
> 
> 13. Watch and wait for ffmpegX0.0.6f to generate any number of files
> that ultimately get recombined into one final .mpg file that is your
> final MPEG2 movie ready for Toast.
> 
> You can play this file with VLC
> <http://www.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.4.6/macosx/vlc-0.4.6.dmg>or, if you
> have the $20 MPEG2 addition to QT6, QT Player will play it as well.
> 
> Next step is to assemble several of these SVCD files in the brand new
> 1.1.1 (Feb 4.03) VCD Builder. <http://homepage.mac.com/johan/>
> 
> Then that multi movie assembly (like iDVD Free) gets burned with Toast
> in the Other‹> Multitrack CD-ROM XA format.
> 
> I got a 14.5 MB movie from a 159.5 MB Full Quality DV Export file with
> my first test of the old 47 second iMovie Tutorial set of clips of
> Matty and the Kids. Now that's effeciency. Extrapolated out it's about
> 20MB per minute or 35 minutes on a 700 MB CD-R/RW.
> 
> But the content of your video will result in different times because
> it's a variable bit encoder. So long speeches will fit with more time
> than an action video with lots of changes.
> 
> End of Part One.
> 
> On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 10:39  AM, Robert Schoenburg wrote:
> 
>> I have made a few VDDs. They always come out "blocky-looking." Any
>> suggestions?
> 
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