I have been puting my Old out of print VHS Movies on DVD by burning them on DVD using my standalone burner. Then the Burned Movies from DVD into my hard drive of my computer.
I have been using the Video Clip icon, and pulling the Video clips from the hard drive into MOvie Factory this way. When I find the Video and Audio files, I click on the audio, and I have usually 5 things there. The first one always seems to be the Standalone burners Menu, which I do not select. The other four are the move. Then I have joined the video, then add my chapters (of which when I go into the ADD/Chapters window, there again are four clips, and and delete those and add my own) then I do menu choices and then finally burn to a new DVD Disk.
When playing back the finazled DVD's in a DVD Player, it seems the movie is just fine until you get towards the end of the move, I have noticed that the Audio, is not in sync with the video. Meaning, when the character in the movie moves his lips, the sound of his words are a bit delayed.
Is editing a movie the way I am causing this? If so is there a solution? (Maybe I am not supposed to edit this way, but I can not figure anyother way to edit in the hard drive.)
Can someone help me with this. It has happened on two separate movies, I thought I had found a simple way to edit the movies, since I had a few on DVD+R and RW, and when you try to edit to disk, it lags when you are trying to make changes. Puting it in the hard drive opened all sorts of things to me like transition menus etc. I would really like this to work!
Thank You So Much!
Audio loses Sync with video?
This is usually caused by file corruption, and it is somewhat common with MPEGs. (As you probably know, DVDs are MPEG-2.) It could be a problem with your DVD recorder, or MPEGs can sometimes become corrupted during the editing process. A corrupt MPEG will often play-back OK, so it can be very difficult to track down the cause.*
Some DVDs (i.e. DVDs from some stand-alone players) don't work with Import, but when it works, it works better than anything else I've tried.
There is also a free program called VOB 2 MPG, and it can also take all of the files in your VIDEO_TS folder and combine them into one big MPEG file.
Whenever I've joined VOB files "manually", I've had a "glitch" at the splice-points. (Not necessarily corruption, but a slight discontinuity in the audio/video.)
If you still have problems, both VideoRedo and Womble have MPEG repair tools, and the free trials are worth a try.
In fact, I now use Womble for all of my MPEG editing, and that solved all of my weird MPEG problems... However, I use it for MPEG editing only. It doesn't have a DVD import feature, its DVD authoring is limited, and it needs a 3rd-party program to burn the DVD. In my case, it was the editing (cutting, splicing, transitions) that caused the problems. DVDs made from unedited files were OK. Your situation may be different!
* The out-of-sync file is probably no longer corrupt. Imagine if you have a video-frame with corrupt "MPEG-data". If you toss out the bad video frame but keep the associated audio, you now have a non-corrupt out-of-sync A/V file! (That's probably not exactly what's happening. but it might be similar.)
What version of Movie Factory do you have? Movie Factory 5 has a DVD Import feature that can import your movie/program as one big MPEG-2 file.When I find the Video and Audio files, I click on the audio, and I have usually 5 things there. The first one always seems to be the Standalone burners Menu, which I do not select. The other four are the move. Then I have joined the video...
Some DVDs (i.e. DVDs from some stand-alone players) don't work with Import, but when it works, it works better than anything else I've tried.
There is also a free program called VOB 2 MPG, and it can also take all of the files in your VIDEO_TS folder and combine them into one big MPEG file.
Whenever I've joined VOB files "manually", I've had a "glitch" at the splice-points. (Not necessarily corruption, but a slight discontinuity in the audio/video.)
If you still have problems, both VideoRedo and Womble have MPEG repair tools, and the free trials are worth a try.
In fact, I now use Womble for all of my MPEG editing, and that solved all of my weird MPEG problems... However, I use it for MPEG editing only. It doesn't have a DVD import feature, its DVD authoring is limited, and it needs a 3rd-party program to burn the DVD. In my case, it was the editing (cutting, splicing, transitions) that caused the problems. DVDs made from unedited files were OK. Your situation may be different!
Video editing ("Non-Linear Editing") works by making a new edited version of the file. So, directly editing on the DVD-R/W doesn't really work. Besides, you need to re-author the DVD to get the menus and chapters set-up properly.since I had a few on DVD+R and RW, and when you try to edit to disk, it lags when you are trying to make changes.
* The out-of-sync file is probably no longer corrupt. Imagine if you have a video-frame with corrupt "MPEG-data". If you toss out the bad video frame but keep the associated audio, you now have a non-corrupt out-of-sync A/V file! (That's probably not exactly what's happening. but it might be similar.)
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No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
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No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
Out of... sync.[/i]
- Head Over Heels, The Go-Gos.[/size]