Sync issues

[ralphsantolla@hotmail.com]

I just upgraded from a standard flip cam to the mino hd version. Now when I import videos into Videopad, the sound is out of sync.

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

 

Seems a common problem. NCH say its performance related with HD as the PC has a lot more processing to do with the video part over the sound. If you are getting the effect I get with HD in the larger formt MPEG4, the visuals lag behind the sound with increasing desynchronisation. As I have posted frequently, rightly or wrongly I convert my video to MPEG2 and the problem goes away.

 

Nat

[AlEebee]

That is particularly vexing as I have the same problem. Means I need to run a conversion (that takes forever on vids of gigs where the set is an hour long )

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

 

I am afraid that a long video takes simply a long time to process (does with my PC anyway ) Just completed a 1 1/2 hour holiday "epic" which took HOURS (more than overnight!) to render as an avi before transferring to a DVD. Normally I cut films down to 30 or 40 mins but family requirements on this occasion meant everything had to be included!

However the synch problem with MPEG4 means I convert my raw camera clips to MPEG 2 clips before I start editing. Even for this long film of several hundred clips the conversion of the clips didn't take THAT long.

 

Any video converter (freeware) will allow you add all your clips to a list and will then convert them one at a time to any one of a selection of formats, placing the result in a designated folder but conserving the original. You can stop it at any time. Its reasonably fast...depends of the parameters you set and the size of the original clip.

 

 

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

 

Its worth giving it a try.

 

Nat