Can DV be authored as SVCD in a DVD-R?

I have the possibility to capture DV via firewire... The question is if I can use a DVD-R big storage place to put a SVCD? I'm using my mini-DV camcorder as a signal converter from analog to digital and VHS doesn't need the bitrate you will put as DVD.

I don't think you can burn a DVD-R as an SVCD, but who cares? What you intend to do is to get more stuff on the medium without wasting bits. All you need to do is to author a regular DVD, use a DVD resolution like 352x576 or 720x576 (these values are for PAL), and encode at a low bitrate like 3000 kbps or even less (2520 kbps is often used for SVCDs). bb

Well bb, I've tried with a bitrate of 3000 and the result is fuzzy compared to the original. I'm just putting my old VHS tapes in DVD but I get the feeling I'm wasting a whole lot of space... I'm capturing at 720x576 and 3745 KB/s (that's what Pinnacle Studio calls Total Video Quality). Pinnacle doesn't know I'm using the Dv Camera as a bypass from analog to digital. For the software I have a Dv input so that's why the capture goes like that. The result is a avi file. After some work on the file, I can create a mpeg-2 file and that's when i'm going to choose the format. It seems that selecting a bitrate below 6000 doesn't look good at the end... My idea was to use the DVD-R space (4.7 Gb) as a SVCD or something similar. That way I'ld be able to squeeze some tapes onto 1 DVD without loosing quality. The question is How? My guess is that I'm stuck with a High Quality input (higher that the original tape) and any attempt in decreasing bitrate or a format lower than 720x576 will result in loosing quality.:(

In my experience in similar VHS projects so far, they always seem to require a higher bitrate to retain quality due to all the artifacts from older vhs tapes...the only way arouns it I have found so far, is encoding it in half d (352x480 for ntsc) and using a noise filter during the encodeing. If you have a smaller horizontal line res on your dv cam, squishing the res in half makes the lines more noticeable afterwards it seems though. I've been getting about 4 hours onto DVD with HQ so far though.

ask vlad59, he wrote it

Please read the sticky threads. :readfaq: bb