Nature of the problem:
I copied a recording of a film from PVR to my PC, edited it (chopped off the adverts at the beginning and end) and then burnt it to DVD.
The first time I tried this, using Windows Movie Maker followed by Windows DVD Maker, it took about three hours (for a 1 hour 45 minute recording) and then I found the end was missing!
My second attempt (same recording) was using Ulead DVD MovieFactory for Toshiba. This was much quicker, taking about 45 minutes but, having tried to play the DVD, I found that from about 48 minutes into the film the sound stopped - the soundtrack at this point changed to that at the end credits (and the picture froze temporarily) and then went silent. I have tried several attempts, each using different settings, and each time the sound problem occurs at exactly the same point in the recording.
Properties of your source files (format, file size, where did you get it?):
.rec (as output from Topfield PVR), converted to .mpg using MPEG Streamclip.
What devices are involved and their mode of connection?
Topfield TF5800 PVR, via USB2 cable.
Project Settings:
I have tried various, including sound settings as Dolby Digital audio (default) and MPEG audio.
Output format (file, DVD, VCD, SVCD):
DVD - I have tried different media: Philips DVD+R, Verbatim DVD+R
PAL or NTSC: PAL
Error Codes (if any): None
Any audio/video softwares or codec packs installed in the system: None
I hope I have gone about this correctly. Please bear with me; I am new!
John
Audio problem when burning DVDs
I solved all of my MPEG related problems by buying the Womble MPEG editor. If you just want to "cut & splice", VideoReDo is another option. (I still use Ulead/Corel for authoring & burning DVDs, as well as for other tasks... I just don't edit MPEGs with them.)
There are other work-arounds. If you search the forum for "sync" you will find lots of discussion and suggestions. There is a potential fix that involves "hacking" an INI file (or something like that), but I couldn't find it just now.
This has nothing to do with the audio format, the blank media, or the actual "burn". There is a glitch in the file that causes the audio and video to go out of sync when they are re-coded and re-multiplexed. I don't know if editing creates the glitch, or magnifies it's effects. This doesn't happen to everyone or with every MPEG file, so there may be something wrong with the original file.
Both Womble and VideoReDo include tools that can sometimes fix an MPEG. (It has to be fixed before the sync problems show-up.) But, since I started editing with Womble, I haven't needed to fix any files.
There are other work-arounds. If you search the forum for "sync" you will find lots of discussion and suggestions. There is a potential fix that involves "hacking" an INI file (or something like that), but I couldn't find it just now.
This has nothing to do with the audio format, the blank media, or the actual "burn". There is a glitch in the file that causes the audio and video to go out of sync when they are re-coded and re-multiplexed. I don't know if editing creates the glitch, or magnifies it's effects. This doesn't happen to everyone or with every MPEG file, so there may be something wrong with the original file.
Both Womble and VideoReDo include tools that can sometimes fix an MPEG. (It has to be fixed before the sync problems show-up.) But, since I started editing with Womble, I haven't needed to fix any files.[size=92][i]Head over heels,
No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
Out of... sync.[/i]
- Head Over Heels, The Go-Gos.[/size]
No time to think.
It's like the whole world's
Out of... sync.[/i]
- Head Over Heels, The Go-Gos.[/size]
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John Robinson
Many thanks for your quick response, DVDDoug.
So you think this is down to the editing rather than the burning? The thing is that exactly the same (edited) file, burnt using the Windows software, came out alright with regard to the sound. It just seemed to terminate before the end of the recording and, of course, the process took far too long.
I forgot to mention that the Ulead software is the version that came pre-installed on my Toshiba laptop. I don't know if that makes any difference.
John
So you think this is down to the editing rather than the burning? The thing is that exactly the same (edited) file, burnt using the Windows software, came out alright with regard to the sound. It just seemed to terminate before the end of the recording and, of course, the process took far too long.
I forgot to mention that the Ulead software is the version that came pre-installed on my Toshiba laptop. I don't know if that makes any difference.
John
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rjhodges
Womble fixed my problem...
John - I must echo Doug's praise of the Womble products. I've been using Movie Factory since version 3 (I'm now on 6+). I used to have tons of problems with missing audio, out-of-sync audio, burns that would stop part way through, etc.
I purchased the Womble Video Wizard editor and my problems disappeared. I use it mainly to chop commercials out of programs recorded on my Philips desktop DVD recorder. I copy the files from the disk to my computer, edit with Womble, create a new .MPG file and import into Movie Factory. A few minutes adding menus and I burn the completed disks.
I ran into an odd problem about a week ago. For the first time in a couple years, I had one program that had no audio in Movie Factory. It played fine in the Ulead player and WinDVD. Eventually I solved it by going back to the Philips recorder, editing off a couple seconds at the front of the program and going through my processing steps again. Worked like a charm! Not sure why it failed the first time.
I purchased the Womble Video Wizard editor and my problems disappeared. I use it mainly to chop commercials out of programs recorded on my Philips desktop DVD recorder. I copy the files from the disk to my computer, edit with Womble, create a new .MPG file and import into Movie Factory. A few minutes adding menus and I burn the completed disks.
I ran into an odd problem about a week ago. For the first time in a couple years, I had one program that had no audio in Movie Factory. It played fine in the Ulead player and WinDVD. Eventually I solved it by going back to the Philips recorder, editing off a couple seconds at the front of the program and going through my processing steps again. Worked like a charm! Not sure why it failed the first time.
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John Robinson