Video lags behind audio

Roasthead · Post by **Roasthead** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:16 am

I have searched the forums, but I cant find a thread related to my issue. I captured an old VHSC home movie using a VCR and a WinTV capture card, and connecting the two via coax..... and when I play it back the video lags behind the audio progressively. I captured into AVI format. I just started using video capture/editing software tonight so I am sorry if this comes across as a "noob" post. My gut feeling is that my hardware, mainly RAM, might be the culprit. I only have the bare minimum processes running in the background, and I have over 100Gigs of drive space free. Any suggetsions would be greatly appreciated.

-Roast

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:28 am

It depends on what you mean by .AVI. I know that from a WinTV card, you cannot capture DV/AVI. And I think you can only capture uncompressed AVI (which is huge -- 1 hour of video takes about 65 GB of space). But if your project is not taking up that amount of space (ist it?), then you may be using one of the highly compressed mpeg-4 codecs, like DivX or XVid, that use the .avi extension as a carrier format only. So can you right click on the captured file within Video Studio. please, and copy down all its Properties here please.

You might also want to capture using DVD quality mpeg-2 as the capture format, since I am sure the WinTV will alow that.

Next, you might also want to consider doing the captures with the software which comes with the WinTV card. I found that better, with a little more flexibility, than Video Studio anyway. Then you can open the captured video in Video Studio for editing...

Roasthead · Post by **Roasthead** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:18 pm

Thnks for your reply. I will capture the files properties and post them here......and I will try your suggestions and see what I can come up with. Also the file is not as large as you said it should be when capturing uncompressed AVI. thnks again!!!

Roast