Hi Everyone,
Is there a way to create SVCD's on a Mac, without having to use the
dark side? I heard that Toast will create the SVCD layout, but there
must be a Mac solution to do mpeg-2 encoding.
Thanks to everyone to replied to my email. After a bit of back and
forth, I found a couple of solutions:
For VCD's: Toast 5 will do it. VCD's are encoded as MPEG-1, which is
not as high quality as SVCD's, but still quite acceptable for home use.
This was the option I ended up with because of time restraints.
For SVCD's: (this one I haven't tried) Toast 6 will create SVCD's, just
drag and drop the quicktime movie onto Toast, and it'll do the
conversion, and add it to the SVCD to burn. SVCD's are encoded as
MPEG-2, which is the same as DVD's. You can only fit about 40 minutes
on a SVCD. The quality is excellent - I couldn't really tell the
difference between what I saw on the screen in iMovie and the resulting
output from the SVCD. This is going to be the option I use in the
future - Daniel has my order to Toast 6!
For SVCD's: I also located some software called ffmpeg (Thanks to
geoffrey richards). This software does the mpeg-2 conversion, and
creates three disk images, which you then drag and drop onto Toast 5 to
create a multi-session/XA format CD. I got the 30 minutes I needed
onto 1 CD. It took 3 hours to encode 30 minutes of video on my 800Mhz
G4 Flat Panel iMac. I found this one at the 11th hour, and managed to
make one copy by the deadline.
Hope others find this helpful.
Regards,
Paul.
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Paul W. Mulroney
Logical Developments
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