Converting Digital8 to VCD?
 

Dear Kwag,
Thanks for all the info you had shared with us here and at the VCDHelp forum. I learned a lot from you and the others on DVD to KVCD conversions. I have a Sony Digital 8 camera and would like to convert the tape footage to KVCD, what steps do I have to follow to do the conversion? I have captured the video with ScenalyzerLive (demo) and would like to experiment on putting the movie on CD. Thanks for any help.

Re: Digital8 Capture to KVCD
 

Hi narc60:

I assume you have transfered via FireWire to your PC in DV format.

I don't have a Digital8 camera, only a HI-8, so I capture via S-Video with VirtualDub and process directly with TMPEG.

I'm not sure if TMPEG will read your type of DV ( I think there's Type-I and Type-II ) Anyone reading this, shine some light here please :lol:

If you can read your DV file directly from TMPEG, you're pretty much set.
I do believe that the frame rate from the digital cameras is 29.97, so you'll have to encode at 29.97 and not at 23.976.

So Inverse Telecine won't apply to digital cameras, because they don't record at 24fps, as the big movies are filmed.

You'll have to de-interlace the video, but that's easy in TMPEG.
If you want, you can use the Wizard in TMPEG to let it determine the Field Order, then note that down and load the KVCD template and verify that the field order is the one that TMPEG detected.

And anyone with digital cameras reading this, correct me if I'm wrong.

At least, this is the procedure I follow when converting from my older HI-8 Sony camera.

Will get a Digital8 soon 8)

kwag

the only thing i do different when converting from d/h-8 is frameserver with virtual dub or avisynth, to do the deinterlacing works much better for my cappz, {as opposed to using the tmpgeng deinterlace}.etc...other than that N60, kwag covered it all.

zTr

Digital8 Capture to KVCD
 

Dear Kwag and el_mero_zooter

Kwag, you're right I captured the footage via Firewire. TMPGEnc opened my avi file and was able to convert it to KVCD. The quality though is not as good as with the DVD conversion. I've read that you capture with 352 X 480 resolution, can this be done with DV captures? How about editing, is there any particular video editing program that can frameserve to TMPGEnc without any problem?

EL_Mero_Zooter
Can you give me a copy of the avs script for frameserving to TMPGEnc?

Thanks Guys for any help.