After I burned a DVD of my movie the audio is a few seconds behind the video. Audio and video was in sync when my project was completed in Movie Maker, was in sync when I previewed it in MyDVD before I burned the DVD. The problem only surfaced after I played movie back on a DVD player. I've added one JPEG image at the end of my movie with a duration of about 6 seconds. Could this be the cause of my concern?

Re: Video/Audio ot of Sync by John

John
Sat May 15 10:40:07 CDT 2004

Hello there,

"myersj" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:492E982F-8EF9-461D-A014-B825B3C74099@microsoft.com...
> After I burned a DVD of my movie the audio is a few seconds behind the
video. Audio and video was in sync when my project was completed in Movie
Maker, was in sync when I previewed it in MyDVD before I burned the DVD. The
problem only surfaced after I played movie back on a DVD player. I've added
one JPEG image at the end of my movie with a duration of about 6 seconds.
Could this be the cause of my concern?

If the video was in good shape prior to being introduced to MyDVD it would
seem to indicate an issue with the DVD software rather than Movie Maker.

I don't use MyDVD so I have to ask, Is there a preview mode (of the
resulting DVD) and if so when you use that mode is the problem apparent
there, or not until you have actually created the DVD.

Nothing is ever beyond the realms of possibility, but I doubt if a still
image at the end could ever be responsible for something going on at the
beginning.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk



Re: Video/Audio ot of Sync by anonymous

anonymous
Sat May 15 11:31:03 CDT 2004

Thanks for the quick response John. Yes there is a preview mode and the problem was not apparent when I previewed the movie prior to burning it. One thing I noticed though is that the titles I've placed at the beginning of my movie seemed to play back on the DVD more rapidly than the time I allowed for them on the Movie Maker time line. In addition, I've added a sound track to coincide with these titles. It now seems that the sound track continues to play after the titles are shown, and the audio portion then begins at the end of the sound track. It appears the audio portion is correct but the video has seemed to have sped up at the beginning.

Re: Video/Audio ot of Sync by John

John
Sat May 15 13:14:13 CDT 2004

Hi there,

I once had the same problem and had to take advice. For me the problem
was because I had captured video of my own making and some from elsewhere.
The elsewhere video had its frames displayed in the wrong order (For TV etc
there are two frames often called odd and even) It seems that because these
frames were in the wrong order the codec fails to function properly and the
result is exactly as you describe.

My solution was to save the various elements separately and then
re-import them and then from there make the final video. Obviously doing it
this way you first check each of the newly created elements first before
committing them to the final cut.

Hope that helps a little.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

"myersj" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7EA9B039-509F-4434-B90E-E7CCD6C47AB4@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the quick response John. Yes there is a preview mode and the
problem was not apparent when I previewed the movie prior to burning it. One
thing I noticed though is that the titles I've placed at the beginning of my
movie seemed to play back on the DVD more rapidly than the time I allowed
for them on the Movie Maker time line. In addition, I've added a sound track
to coincide with these titles. It now seems that the sound track continues
to play after the titles are shown, and the audio portion then begins at the
end of the sound track. It appears the audio portion is correct but the
video has seemed to have sped up at the beginning.



Re: Video/Audio ot of Sync by anonymous

anonymous
Sat May 15 13:26:04 CDT 2004

Thanks John, I'll give it a try.

RE: Video/Audio ot of Sync by anonymous

anonymous
Sun May 16 18:36:02 CDT 2004

John
I discovered the cause of my video/audio concern. It seems that the MyDVD software has a transition default setting of 2 seconds. Even though I had specified a certain duration time for each of the titles at the beginning of my movie (4 seconds) in Movie Maker, MyDVD had changed the transition time to 2 seconds. I went into the Video Editing tab, found under "Preferences" on MyDVD, and set the transition Duration to 4 seconds there as well. Video, Audio, and Soundtrack all were burned to another DVD today and all play back correctly. Thanks again!

----- myersj wrote: ----

After I burned a DVD of my movie the audio is a few seconds behind the video. Audio and video was in sync when my project was completed in Movie Maker, was in sync when I previewed it in MyDVD before I burned the DVD. The problem only surfaced after I played movie back on a DVD player. I've added one JPEG image at the end of my movie with a duration of about 6 seconds. Could this be the cause of my concern?

Re: Video/Audio ot of Sync by John

John
Mon May 17 01:34:56 CDT 2004

Hi there,

OK. sounds a bit odd, but if it works go with it.

Thanks for telling us the outcome.

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www.the-kellys.co.uk
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