i have been trying to make a good quality VCD for more than a month now.. but always end up with videos that are problematic which include BLOCKS all over.. can anyone enlighten me as to what VCD settings i should tweak, consider to produce good quality VCD .. good quality, meaning getting rid of the BLOCKS... i capture my video using a firewire card from my SONY DCRPC110.. do some editing with VEGAS VIDEO and render it using VV3's default template (or should i render my video using the highest template settings?) and encode my video using TMPGENC where i think the key to my problem lies.... thank you very much for all of your future help
You should always try to get the cleanest, highest bitrate possible to the TMPGEnc phase -- I recommend transferring data in RAW YUV AVI or Huffyuv if possible (ok, it will take like 5-20GB of space, but anyway) and use only non-lossy compression (huffyuv) in max resolution (assuming full NTSC or PAL == 704x480/576) until you bring the video into TMPGEnc. In TMPGEnc for VCD there aren't really that much tweaks, just make sure your interlace settings are ok and that the motion search precision is set as Highest (slowest) possible.
