Viewing speed?

2rastas wrote on 3/1/2009, 4:53 AM

Hi everyone, I'm very new to this so please bear with me. When I'm editing in Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9, when I click the play button to preview what I have so far the video and audio doesn't appear to be in sync. It is when I render it tho. Is that the way it's supposed to be? Makes it kinda hard to trim events down when I can't really get a feel for how it's really flowing.

Any ideas?

Also, is there any books out there that anybody knows of that I can buy to help me?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/1/2009, 5:36 AM

What do you have the preview quality set for? If you have it set for Best try Good, or if already good try Preview. If you have it set for Full try Half.

What kind of material are you editing? What are your project settings? If you fill in your system specs and expose them we may be able to spot some hardware issues that could be corrected.

2rastas wrote on 3/1/2009, 6:13 AM

Hi, thanks for respnding to my question. I've tried Preview and even draft, also tried half and down to quarter. The audio and video still doesn't seem quite synced. It's some footage I took with my Sony HD camcorder. The cam is a Sony HDR SR-12. The footage is in HD. What should my settings be if I want to put it on a DVD. I don't have a Blu ray burner yet so it's going to have to be a regular DVD and then use my Blu ray player to upconvert I guess?

Thanks again

mike_in_ky wrote on 3/1/2009, 4:04 PM

How much horsepower does your computer have? From what I've read, HD video needs more resources than DV.

mike_in_nc

stevec5000 wrote on 5/25/2009, 4:26 PM

I have a new core 2 duo system with an expensive graphics card and it still doesn't work very well. When I try to edit out a bit of video, type S at the beginning and end then delete it I find that the cut wasn't made exactly at the spot I selected with the S, the picture starts getting jumpy in the preview and the sound is out of sync with the video. So far this program doesn't seem capable of even the simplest video editing. The only good thing I can say about it is that it doesn't crash when I try to import an HDTV file like all the other programs I tried.