Okay I have searched the net and the forums here and I cannot seem to find an anwser to my problem. I have some mini DV footage I shot with my XL1s. I captured the footage and edited down 3, 3 minute clips. I rendered them out as avi files. I open the files in windows media and they played fine. The first time I burned them to a disk I used roxio's DVD Maker thing. When I played the dvd the first maybe 5 seconds were cut off and then the audio and video were out of sync. This happened for maybe 5-10 seconds then they went back into sync. I thought it was Roxio and so I got Encore and tried it again and when I previewed the dvd in Encore I had the same problem. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong??

Thanks.

To which AVI codec did you render? If it is something like DiVX/XviD then you
will have such problems. Either render out to MPEG-2 inside your NLE (if it can
do this) or render out to DV AVI or uncompressed AVI.

I tried rendering out to DV Avi and uncompressed Avi. Both were giving me that problem.

Try rendering to MPEG-2 directly in your NLE. See how it looks then. What
NLE (editing software) are you using?

I got Encore and tried it again and when I previewed the dvd in Encore I had the same problem.

previewing it on the computer with the dvd authoring app could be the problem... i'm no dvd authoring expert, but i've never seen a authoring app that previewed correctly... about all they are good for is making sure the links and menu are functional.

burn it to a disk, play it back on a couple of real dvd players(not computer dvd players), and let us know what happens.