Dropouts Part 2

yirm wrote on 11/14/2001, 11:21 AM

Okay, so I have these dropouts -- now what to do about them.

There doesn't seem to be anything in VF to detect these gaps in audio. I tried editing the audio in Sound Forge XP, but unfortunately, the "find" feature seems limited to the full version. So what is the best way to detect and fix these errors?

What I've been doing is listening and watching the video with high zoom. When I detect a gap, I put two splits around the gap, and delete the audio and video with the audio gap. Then I select all the events to the right of the gap and nudge them to the event on the left of the gap. This results in missing one to three frames, but it's preferable to the audio glitch.

Is there a better way to do this??

-Jeremy

Comments

DirkyBoy wrote on 11/15/2001, 9:59 PM

Just out of curiosity, are you using MP3 when you experience the "gaps"? Excuse me if I am totally in the wrong here - but if you ARE using MP3, and it's an audio problem ... check and make sure the MP3 file isn't using VBR (variable bit rate). If it is, you can probably convert it to a CBR (Constant bit rate) and this MAY fix the problem - I ran into this with another video editor. It appears most of them use MP3 decoders that are not supportive of VBR.

yirm wrote on 11/15/2001, 11:56 PM

Thanks for your attempt. No. This is 16-bit, 48kHz audio captured digitally right off of the Sony Digital-8 camcorder as part of the DV file format.

-Jeremy