Second Audio Track Dubbing in Movie Studio 9

StevieS wrote on 3/21/2010, 4:28 AM
Hi guys, can I ask a little advice here please?

I have imported a video track into Movie Studio Platinum 9, which has embedded audio. No problems there.

I have laid down a second "narration" track on certain parts of the timeline, which play back perfectly and they play in the correct place when played back in the timeline.

My problem is when I render a final movie, the narration track appears to be way out of synch with the video, and it plays all the way through without stopping at the split points I have set.

I am fairly new to this package, am I doing something wrong here? Should I be embedding a continuous track or can I insert narration segments where I need them at split points?

Any help very welcome. Many thanks in advance.

edit: If it helps any, I just noticed that the video content in the final render AND in the preview render seems to be laggy and a tad slower than the timeline playback, which may explain the positional error on the narration track.

edit: yep, the audio cannot sync to the video because the video is lagging, it can't get a proper sync point so it just plays straight through.

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StevieS wrote on 3/21/2010, 5:43 AM
Okay, further to my initial post, let me clarify something here.
My original video is in uncompressed avi format at 1440x900 non-interlaced.

I WAS trying to render out to avi using square pixel and resizing to 1280x720 (720p 25). This was causing problems due to heavy video processing overhead.

I am NOW rendering directly to mpeg2 m2t format and... no sync errors! Works beautifully. I can only play it back using an m2t HD codec but it works. The only down-side now is the video quality is soft, even on high quality rendering.

I am using dual-core 2.3GHz processor, could this be the reason for the laggy avi conversion? Do I have to upgrade to Quad core before I lose the lag?
StevieS wrote on 3/25/2010, 4:22 PM
Anybody wanting an answer to this just work it out for yourself, nobody here bothered. I need a faster CPU to get rid of lag, can't process the video fast enough. Was that painless enough to post???
Eigentor wrote on 3/26/2010, 5:34 AM
Did anybody hear me scream?