Unable to Edit Anything without Audio Skipping Pro X3

[garystewart]

Hi,

I have been looking at various posts regarding audio skipping but am clueless as to how to repair or use this program successfully. I am able to import a simple mp2 file off a DVD (VOB), scan into scenes and usually play it in the timeline without skipping. I can play an mpg clip/scene, at least once, without skipping. Any kind of editing of any file results in skipping. Whether I save as a project or not, it skips. If I export, it skips. With or without Smart Proxy, it skips. With or without SP2 (after a clean reinstall) it skips. I have been editing for at least 7 years with various programs, but this is truly a first. I am really hesitant to upgrade to X4 as a fix, fully expecting it will be more of the same.

I want to clarify something. I listened very closely with a friend and concluded it is not exactly skipping. It is truncated repeating of a word in close succession, so you will hear a word immediately followed by the same word repeated but partly cut off.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Best wishes,
garystewart

[Black Lab]

Please read the following and supply the requested info.

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8959

[garystewart]

Hi Jeff,

I posted the info in my profile. Should be visible.

Thanks,

garystewart

[teknisyan]

For the meantime, you can try downloading or updating the codecs on your computer.

Here are some of the codecs that you may want to install.
RealPlayer: http://www.real.com/
DivX: http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack
XviD: http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.3.1.zip
Windows Media Player: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... dia-player or just download the Windows Encoder at http://www.microsoft.com/expression/pro ... rview.aspx
QuickTime: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Direct X: http://on-msn.com/aLrk0j (WinXP)
Direct X: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/window ... tx-11.aspx

[Black Lab]

Um, ok. How about you supply ALL the requested info. We need details about what you are trying to edit, where it came from, etc....

[garystewart]

Hi Jeff,

I may have solved the problem. I contacted the author of the original DVD and found out it was made in Pinnacle 8 about seven years ago. The clips I created from his original still retained an LPCM audio format. I understand the original was an uncompressed AVI and with LPCM audio, which I presume means lossless PCM. I decided to try converting the entire original into an HD WMV in Windows Moviemaker, hoping to eliminate what I am guessing, perhaps wrongly, was a problem with an old codec. I split the new WMV into scenes in Moviemaker and then created the formerly problem clips I had needed into the same HD format, then imported them into X3. The HD WMV works fine with X3. It was a bit of extra work, but I am thinking the ancient original Lossless AVI with LPCM was at fault.

Sorry to bother you but I was a bit frustrated and didn't have any direction.

Best wishes,
garystewart