I'm trying to edit a 40 minute video on MGI Videowave 4. and i'm having a horrible time trying to get the audio to stay in synch when i produce the files as .avi (or any other format for that matter). is this simply because Videowave is crap or is there something i can do to solve this problem (without trimming audio to make it fit with the video)? it's out of synch from the start, but seems to get worse further into the video. are there any decent editing programs i can get that i;m not going to have this problem with? thanks

-- Noah james (secondtry35@hotmail.com), February 13, 2003

Answers

It depends on how out of sync it is. If it's a second or less at the worst part and it's in MPEG format, Womble (http://www.womble.com) has a MPEG editor that has a feature in the multiplexer that allows you to move sound forwards or backwards in the mux and it can fix minor sync problems. Anything off by more than 2 seconds or so at the worst part is probably too great to fix with muxing. Womble has 2 products - MPEGVCR which only edits MPEG-1 video and is about $50 US. MPEG2VCR is $249 US and can edit MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video. I think you can download an eval copy of MPEGVCR. Sorry, I don't know anything about MGI Videowave. Your only other option is to edit the sound file.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), February 14, 2003.

Nasty, known issue. My workaround is as follows:

Do all your editing and save file as an AVI, at 30 fps (frames per second). This is important, do not save it at 29.97 fps. Then, take the resulting single AVI file, and encode it using TMPGEnc externally. You'll probably want to apply some kind of compression to it, else the file will be huge.

It may also be possible to encode the single file using VideoWave itself, as I hear that the audio sync bug only happens when you have more than 1 clip in your production. But I haven't verified that, personally.

-- Roderick Young (roderick.young@angelfire.com), October 27, 2003.