Hi im new to the world of VCD im using an Iomega buz to capture video from my VCR but I can only use up to 2MB of hard drive ...WHY??? is there away around this? ....Also I have Adaptec easy CD V3.5 and Im about to buy an encoder ethier Xing or LSX any advice would be helpful.

-- Scott Sequira (liteyears@aol.com), August 02, 1999

Answers

This is a limitation native to Windows itself. Not a problem with Buz, East CD Creator, Xing, etc.

Kevin

-- Kevin (delgadil@cisco.com), August 02, 1999.

Hi Scott

I assume you are using avi's as what follows is related to avi's being encoded and not direct production of mpeg's at capture.

I use premiere 5.1 to produce the source avi. I am using the LSX encoder as I believe it gives a higher quality image but it is subject to the 2G limit on the avi input file. I believe most stand alone encoders are. The timeline plugin type that allows rendering direct to the vcd format from the time line will get around that but watch out for quality or the lack of it. LSX have promised to update their encoder to batch avi's into one output mpeg but I do not have details of when that might be available.

The 2G input limit is why I donot go beyond about 33 minutes for a track because the data rate of the input file must be reduced in direct proportion for a bigger movie and the quality suffers.

Might help you deliberations.

-- Ross McLennan (rmclennan@esc.net.au), August 03, 1999.