How to create VCD in OS X?

[vita_kk]

Hi all. I'm a newbie to Mac.
I would like to know how to create VCD in OS X. I have a PB with combo drive. I know how to create a data disc, however, I can't seem to find any functions to create VCD?
Do I need a third party software to do so? If so, what software would you recommend?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[munkle]

The only way I can think of is to use Toast, which gives you the option of burning VCD or SuperVCD discs.

Not sure how you would do it from OSX itself.

 

[blodwyn]

Toast seems to do it. I haven't tried it but there's an option to create video cd or super video cd

 

[cubist]

You export an MPEG file from iMovie, then use Toast to burn a VCD from it. It's a bit of a clumsy process and the MPEG file is very large, but it works well once you've got the process going.

Video quality is not very good, but CD-R media is cheap.

 

[stoid]

If you are going for video quality and your DVD player supports it, make SVCD. You can't fit as much on the disc in terms of minutes, I think that an SVCD holds 40 minutes as opposed to the 65 or 70 on a VCD. But the SVCD uses a similar codec to DVD, so you'll get far better quality.

 

[ChrisFromCanada]

You really should go with the superdrive DVD-R route. You can get a firewire case for $40 and a DVD-R drive for $50 and you are set. And for the other guy who posted about media cost DVD-Rs are only about $0.20 more then CD-Rs. And yea for the time being use toast if you need to burn VCDs.

 

[evil_santa]

I use Toast to convert my VHS tapes to vcd or svcd, I find that the quality is about the same as VHS. It is also a lot cheaper in disks. Its quite simple to do, export your movie from imovie or FCP drop in toast select vcd / svcd / DVD then burn. It has to encode the video into mpeg so it will take a while. You can also burn DVDs onto CD roms but you an only get 20 min & it may not play in a Domestic DVD player.

 

[AmigoMac]

Does it mean I need to buy the MPEG encoder from apple?

 

[evil_santa]

Does it mean I need to buy the MPEG encoder from apple?

nope toast does it all for you.