Editing Video CD (section)

==Compared with VHS==
Overall picture quality is intended to be comparable to [[VHS]] video.<ref>{{Citation|first=Leonardo |last=Chiariglione |title=MPEG Press Release, London, 6 November 1992 |date=November 6, 1992 |publisher=[[International Organization for Standardization]] |url=http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/meetings/london/london_press.htm |access-date=2008-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108160634/http://www.chiariglione.org//mpeg/meetings/london/london_press.htm |archive-date=November 8, 2007 }}</ref>
Poorly [[Video compression|compressed]] VCD video can sometimes be of lower quality than VHS video, for example exhibiting VCD block artifacts<ref name="NGen4">{{citation|title=Correction |journal=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]|issue=4|publisher=[[Imagine Media]]|date=April 1995|page=108}}</ref> (rather than the analog noise seen in VHS sources), but does not deteriorate further with each use. Producing video CDs involves stripping out high- and low-frequency sounds from the video, resulting in lower audio quality than VHS.<ref name="NGen4"/> While both formats need fast-forwarding to find certain scenes, rewinding to the beginning upon reaching the end is not required in VCD. The resolution is just half below that of common VHS resolution.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

Video CDs did not come with [[closed caption]]ing (on-screen text to aid viewers with hearing problems). When watching a film that exceeds 74 minutes (nearly 1¼ hours), the maximum video capacity of one disc, a viewer had to change the disc upon reaching halfway (unless the discs were played on a VCD changer that could hold multiple discs and play them automatically in succession), whereas a single VHS tape could hold 3.5 hours of continuous video.