How do I make a VCD (Video CD) that will play in most DVD players?
VCDs are becoming increasingly popular in the home editing market. A VCD is basically the for-runner to DVD but uses a standard CD. Fortunately most DVD players will support VCDs. There are two types of VCD, the original (which uses mpeg1 compression) and SVCD (which uses mpeg2 compression). However, VCDs are more widely supported. Virtual Edit cannot directly output mpeg1 data, however, you could render a high quality AVI and then use a VCD burning tool that supports AVI video data (for example Sonic – MyDVD) to burn the VCD data onto CD. Alternatively render a high quality AVI and then use a third party mpeg encoder to generate an mpeg file, then use a VCD burning tool that supports mpeg video data (for example Roxio – Easy CD Creator 5 platinum) to burn the VCD data onto CD.
VCDs are becoming increasingly popular in the home editing market. A VCD is basically the for-runner to DVD but uses a standard CD. Fortunately most DVD players will support VCDs. There are two types of VCD, the original (which uses mpeg1 compression) and SVCD (which uses mpeg2 compression). However, VCDs are more widely supported. Virtual Edit cannot directly output mpeg1 data, however, you could render a high quality AVI and then use a VCD burning tool that supports AVI video data (for example Sonic – MyDVD) to burn the VCD data onto CD. Alternatively render a high quality AVI and then use a third party mpeg encoder to generate an mpeg file, then use a VCD burning tool that supports mpeg video data (for example Roxio – Creator) to burn the VCD data onto CD.
