ok, for some reason on some films, no matter what i try the audio and vid sysnc go out of whack after converting. Here is what i do: i use the dazzle dvc to capture at a bit rate 0f 3000, then i used to enode this with the panasonic to vcd format. most of the time this is just fine, but again just on certain films it knocks off the sync. PART 2 i got in touch with the xing tech. they told me that sometimes these cards actually save as an mpeg 2 header instead of a true mpeg system. What they told me to do is this. using the xing demuxer, then using the xing encoder, re-encode it under 'match" this will change it to a true mpeg header. from here i can encode to vcd format. And it wokred great!!!! It sort of solved the probledm until i saw the results the xing gave me. Quite unacceptable. So i did the same method, but used the panasonic to encode it to vcd, BUT once again it knmocks off the sync. Any suggestions???? Its driving me crazy because i really dont understand why its doing this. What the heck can possibly be wrong with these films to do this? My masters on the PC are just fine. thanks

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), January 11, 2000

Answers

If you will painstakingly peruse items under Dazzle/Snazzi in this forum you will soon see that getting out of sync, audio and video- wise, especially after more than 30mins of capturing at a stretch, at whatever bitrate, is one Dazzle/Snazzi forte. I suggest ditching that Dazzle and getting another capture device (just to avi this time with some reliable codec like any flavor of MJPEG), a s/w avi2mpg encoder, and a cup of lemon tea to soothe your frayed nerves. C'mon. Dazzle/Snazzi is cheap in more ways than one. You can't possibly be serious about VCD with Dazzle. :)

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@hotmail.com), January 12, 2000.