Gingernutz

Hi,

I use a HD camcorder to record shows from 30 mins to 2 hours long.  When I burn the project to DVD using just camcorder audio & video, I only seem to fill at best just half of the disk and the resultant video quality is poor, to the extent that peoples facial features are barely visible.  While I thought that the 2hr lengths may be compressed to fit on the disk, I have recently found the same issue on a 30 minute recording.  If I flip the disk over, less than half has been written.

So what can I do to make use of all of the available space on the disk for an improved end result?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Hi,

I've used this suite for a year or two now for camcorder work and I have since improved the quality of my original media by recording the audio separately on a digital recorder, then adding it as track 2 in Videopad.  I can align the first few peaks on track 1 (camcorder audio) & 2 (separately recorded audio) at the start of the video and then mute track 1, it all sounds great and is in sync at first.... that is until I am about 45 minutes in and I can hear that my audio is getting out of sync and I can also see that the peaks on track 1 & 2 no longer align the further I get into the video.  After a couple of hours video this can be by as much as 2 or 3 seconds out of sync.

Now I know that the differing length of the master tracks is because of the slightly different clock accuracy of the equipment that I am using to record, but my question is what is the easiest way to adjust audio track 2 to be in sync both at the start AND the end of a video project.  Ideally I would like to align it at the start and be able to grab the other end of track 2 to shrink or stretch that audio track to align peaks at the end of the project too.

Currently I am exporting to Wavepad then bringing at edited version back into the project, but this is a bit hit & miss and also quite long winded.

Any suggestions welcome.

Many thanks,

Dave