LIP SYNC PROBLEMS

pumpkinhead1972 · Post by **pumpkinhead1972** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:03 pm

I have been using DVD MovieFactory 6 Platinum for a few years now with mostly great success, however today I have tried to create a DVD as I would normally do with an .avi file.

After the rendering process the movie has terrible lip sync problems, which were not there on the original movie. This clearly is not normal - what do I need to do to rectify this!!??

Please help!!!!

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:46 pm

You can try using a 3rd-party program such as SUPER (FREE!!!) to convert your files to DVD compatible MPEG-2. You can look at one of the Movie Factory Project-Templates to find the settings (resolution, framerate, bitrate, etc) for a DVD compatible MPEG-2 file.

There is probably some (slight?) corruption in your original AVI file.

This kind of thing happens more often with the more-compressed formats. Note that AVI is not a single format. It's a "wrapper" or "container" format. DV/AVI (13GB per hour from a MiniDV camera) is usually trouble-free. Formats like DivX/AVI can sometimes be trouble.

pumpkinhead1972 · Post by **pumpkinhead1972** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:21 pm

Thanks for your fast response.

I have done everything you suggested e.g. converting the .avi file to DVD movie factory template settings:-

MPEG files
24 bits, 720 x 576, 25 fps
Frame-based
(DVD-PAL), 4:3
Video data rate: Variable (Max. 7000 kbps)
Audio data rate: 256 kbps
Dolby Digital Audio, 48 KHz, 2/0(L,R)

I have also tried other settings - all to no avail. I have to agree with you that the original .avi file is corrupt.

Is there any program I can run to remove/correct this coruption??

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:19 am

You wrote:....It's an AVI file ......

Sorry but that doesn't help much.
There are a small handful of file extensions that describe that a computer file is a video. These include
avi, mpeg, mov, rm, wmv, qt, swf
Plus a few others.
Think of these as groups of of a certain form of video, within those groups are lots of individuals. Liken this to animals, there are dogs, cats, snakes, birds, rodents and so on.
Within these groups are several types. For instance a dog can be a Poodle, Jack Russell, Alsatian, King Charles, Greyhound etc.

The term avi can mean any one of perhaps a hundred different types such as DV, MPEG4, uncompressed, MJPEG, DivX, Xvid, RLE, YUV, Cinepak and lots more.

You need to be more specific.

pumpkinhead1972 · Post by **pumpkinhead1972** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:34 am

It's O.K. thanks to DVDDoug who has put me on the right path I have found an .avi repair program ( ASF-AVI-RM-WMV Repair) which has corrected the slight corruption in the original file.

I have run the video through DVD Movie Factory and everything is fine now - thanks very much!!!!!!