Help! Record DVavi back to DV tape drops audio (MP3, .wav)

madmikee · Post by **madmikee** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 9:17 pm

To all,

I am a DV newbie panicking

due to sons video project I am trying to work on with him.

I am trialing Ulead VideoStudio 8 trial version downloaded from cnet.com, and thinking about buying it.

I have a Panasonic PV-DV701 miniDV camcorder with USB and firewire ports. I think I have the right drivers installed for the camcorder.

I just bought a Belikin firewire card/cable from Staples (no time to ebay).

My computer is a Dell OptiPlex P4 1.4GHz (I think), with 60GB HD and 30GB free.

I was successful at capturing the DV from tape to computer in avi files by scene. Great! I then added transition effects to the video line, MP3 to the Audio line, and .wav clip to both the audio and microphone line.

I then saved the video to a DV-AVI file, and was able to play back on my computer with all sounds and video. It seemed all was well.

The problem is:

When I exported the resulting finished product (the AVI file with all the added audio) back to the camcorder DV tape, the mp3 audio and the wav audio were both dropped. the original audio from the DV tape was there, however, on one scene where I slowed the playback speed down to 75%, the audio in that scene was dropped.

I have searched the forums and hopefully won't take a beating from you guys if this has already been covered. Any help would would be greatly appreciated, as my son and his freinds are coming over Tuesday to work on this project.

Thanks!

Mike (aka MadMike)

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:36 pm

I have good news and I have bad news.

First, the good news. The problem you've run into is a known problem in Videostudio V8.0, and there's a fix for it here.

The bad news is that the patch cannot be applied to the trial version of Videostudio, it only works with the boxed version and the ESD (Electronic Software Download) version.

rwindeyer · Post by **rwindeyer** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:25 pm

Another possibility: I ran into a similar problem, when saving the captured video as DV-2. This has a separate sound and video track. The answer is to capture and render to DV-1 - then when exporting to the camera the whole lot gets included.

Hope that helps.