Ted Bragg
August 4th, 2004, 08:45 PM
Ran into a glaring problem somewhat consistant with Pinnacle Studio 8. When making DVDs from edited DV footage, the audio ALWAYS gets out of sync.
However, some people haven't had this problem.
I got to reading NTSC DVD player spec, and learned most players cannot support Mp2 audio, but PAL players *do*.
I understand AC3 audio to use bitrate to calculate sync, but MP2? Doesn't MP2 use a frame-based timing mechanism? If I had shot 24p or 30p, instead of 29.997, (or used AC3) I've a feeling it wouldn't have stepped out of sync a few minutes into the movie.
I could be all wrong. I'm looking for other softs to replace Pin. Studio 8.
For editing, I used uncompressed AVIs from a direct camera dump. Audio was in WAV. Test runs with a harddisk based DVD image had the same sync problems.
I've yet to experiement with the AC3 audio encoding (not enough time to toy with it) but am I way off track here?
However, some people haven't had this problem.
I got to reading NTSC DVD player spec, and learned most players cannot support Mp2 audio, but PAL players *do*.
I understand AC3 audio to use bitrate to calculate sync, but MP2? Doesn't MP2 use a frame-based timing mechanism? If I had shot 24p or 30p, instead of 29.997, (or used AC3) I've a feeling it wouldn't have stepped out of sync a few minutes into the movie.
I could be all wrong. I'm looking for other softs to replace Pin. Studio 8.
For editing, I used uncompressed AVIs from a direct camera dump. Audio was in WAV. Test runs with a harddisk based DVD image had the same sync problems.
I've yet to experiement with the AC3 audio encoding (not enough time to toy with it) but am I way off track here?