AV Out of Sync

hamptonk wrote on 10/26/2004, 1:26 PM
Just bought Movie Studio / DVDA ....have been using pinnacel studio but got tired of the bugs

Here's my scenario....
Capture movies off cable though All-in-wonder radeon
format mpg2 720x480, 29.97, 6000 bps

using pinnacle studio 8
cut out commercials - end up with 90 min video
save project out as one mpg file without re-rendering
test file - lips are in sync all the way through

Open new project in DVDA
import mpg file
tell it to prepare dvd with 6000 bps
says it's going to re-render audio
is it re-rendering video? don't think so since the whole process takes only 20 minutes....

test dvd video_ts output in powerdvd and the audio/video is out of sync by about half way through movie.

Am I doing something wrong?

How can I take a perfectly good mp2 file and put it on a dvd that will play on a regular player?

Comments

ScottW wrote on 10/26/2004, 1:48 PM
I think this is a known problem with the MPEG files these cards produce. Try doing a forum search on all-in-wonder

I can't recall any workarounds offhand other than capturing to a different format (if that's an option).

--Scott
mcgeedo wrote on 10/28/2004, 11:08 AM
Since you have DVDA2, then you must have Vegas. You can re-sync in Vegas, but unfortunately you'll want to render twice: once from mgep to avi, fix the sync, then render back to mpeg. You don't want to edit on an mpeg file.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/28/2004, 6:41 PM
Go to the File -> Optimize dialog and it will tell you whether the audio, video, both, or neither are going to be rendered.

If you capture from the All-in-Wonder, the AV sync may be happening there. I generall find that I have to move the audio about 1/4 second in order to re-establish sync. To see if this is the problem, import one of your captures into Vegas, and zoom in on each end of the audio and video event, especially at the end of the event. Do the audio and video events both end at the same moment in time (don't worry if they are off by a partial frame, but I usually see the audio short by about 1/4 to 1/2 second).
hamptonk wrote on 10/29/2004, 9:53 PM
Actually, the mpg that comes out of the ATI card is always in sync
And if I cut out commercials in pinnacle and created a single mpg - it is in sync. It's the creation of the dvd folder with video_ts that ends up out of sync - whether I created the dvd image with pinnacle or DVDA.

I just did the routine in Vegas Movie studio - cut out commercials, created an mpg and it was in sync - just took several hours
then used DVDA and made a dvd image and it's in sync too

So, Movie Studio and DVDA worked - just took a lot longer
hamptonk wrote on 10/30/2004, 7:46 AM
I'm back

my prepare DVD works - everything is in sync, but when I went to burn it to a dvd, it's too big

the mpg file I imported into dvda is only 3.9 gig
however it shows it's 109% of the size of a dvd. 5+ gig
- I change the default bps to 6,000 (like the source file)
- I set dvda to 6k bps and tell it not to recompress...
but nothing I change anywere causes the file size to go back to it's 3.9gig original size

Help!