Audio out-of-sync in long project

dand9959 wrote on 8/9/2004, 7:49 PM
I know this is not a new topic, but here we go again...

I have edited together a long (50 min) project consisting of many individual clips, music, etc.

When I render to mpeg2, the resulting file ends up with the audio getting progressively more and more out of sync.

In the past, I've always created small "chapter-sized" video segments which I've then assembled in a dvd authoring tool. I haven't seen any OOS probs here (ostensibly because the individual segments are of short length - 5-6 mins at max.)

This project, however, did not lend itself so easily to segmentation, so I created one long project and rendered - thus introducing the OOS problem.

Has anyone else experienced this problem...or better yet, solved it? (I know this is endemic in the Studio product, but I did not realized it existed in MS, also.)

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dand9959 wrote on 8/9/2004, 10:22 PM
Well, I think I got rid of the OOS problem - and it does NOT seem to be related directly to MS. Nevertheless, this might be useful info for some people:

I authored my 50m DVD (consisting of one long mpeg file and a menu) using DVD X Maker, and burned the DVD image to my hard drive using the same. I then used DVD-Lab to burn the image to a DVD primarily because I never really trusted DVD X Maker's burn capabilities. (I usually use Nero for this step, but my demo expired.) Well, that caused all sorts of problems in addition to OOS. Namely, the DVD would skip, jerk, and occassionally just plain stop.

I went back and burned a new DVD using DVD X Maker (the same app that created the image) and this DVD worked fine...in fact, even the OOS was fixed.

Lesson learned? Don't know exactly...but I won't be using DVD-Lab to burn anymore discs. (Unless it is of an image created by DVD-Lab...which I've had a tough time making happen anyway...but that's a different thread.) I'll probably purchase Nero out-right as I've never ever had a problem burning images with that software.