video in slow motion

dmiller wrote on 3/18/2010, 4:03 PM
Hello,
I am new to Sony movie maker and am trying to make my first movie. The preview looks fine but, when I try to make a movie and save it to my hard drive the final product comes out with video in slow motion and the sound at normal speed. I have tried different formats. (mpeg2, .avi} and have tried the movie on different players with the same result. I have looked in the forums for a solution but, have found none. Thank you for any help on this.

dmiller

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Eugenia wrote on 3/18/2010, 5:16 PM
Follow the steps here and report back if you see improvement:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/
Juan David wrote on 3/18/2010, 6:37 PM
I'm not sure but I think this is what's happening:
When you expand your video to make it slower, you also have to expand the sound, otherwise when you render it the video will be in slow motion but the audio will be at normal speed.

If you look at your tool bar, you'll see an icon that looks like a padlock with 4 blue squares around it. When you click it separates the sound and video so you can work with them separately, like deleting the sound without deleting the video or expanding one and not the other. You have to unclick it cause if you don't, every time you work on vegas the same thing will happen to you.
richard-amirault wrote on 3/18/2010, 6:45 PM
The preview looks fine but, when I try to make a movie and save it to my hard drive the final product comes out with video in slow motion and the sound at normal speed.

What is the "final product"?
Juan David wrote on 3/18/2010, 8:28 PM
He means, when it's rendered and saved to the hardrive
dmiller wrote on 3/19/2010, 7:10 AM
Thank you all for the replies,
Yes, by "final product" I mean when the project is rendered and saved to my hard drive. Also, I am not intending for the video or audio to be in slow motion, it just ends up that way. I will try what was posted in the link and get back.
thanks again
dmiller
dmiller wrote on 3/21/2010, 8:34 AM
Hello,
Thanks to all who replied. I fixed my problem by buying a new computer. Works like a charm. The computer that I was trying to render video on was a high end laptop with a duo core and a good video card, but I guess it wasn't good enough.
thanks again
dmiller