Video/Audio Synch Problem With Adobe Premiere Pro & Enco

[chris18]

I am trying to create my first home movie DVD using the above on a friends machine. I have drive caddys so was able to plug my drive into his machine.

I captured the original footage from my digicam, using automatic capture, through a firewire using Movie Maker 2, which is all I had access to at the time.

I have a raw (no edits done)WMV file and also a raw (no edits done) AVI file converted of course from the WMV. When playing back the files the video and audio seem synchronized as far as I can see so the capture has worked well.

I imported the WMV file to Premiere Pro and edited out some bad sections and created three AVI clips which I used in Encore DVD, with animated menus, to produce a test DVD.

Although I had noticed the audio synchronization problem when previewing in Encore DVD I wasn't sure if this would sort itself out on the final DVD. Unfortunately this wasn't the case and the video/audio synchronization problem shows within the first minute.

I have now created a new project in Premiere Pro using the raw WMV file and if I view it in the clip Monitor window it plays OK with video/audio synchronized. If however, I play it through the Sequence Monitor window the playback is jerky and the audio/video are NOT synchronized. I assume this is because it's being processed by Premiere Pro rather than it just playing the video.

I have also imported the first clip created in Premiere Pro back into Movie Maker and the video/audio synch problem shows itself straight away.

I was wondering whether to burn a DVD straight from Movie Maker raw file to see if that produces the same result.

I was under the impression that capturing with a firewire stopped the video/audio synch problems when writing back to DVD.

I'd be grateful for any help as to how to cure the problem.

[pijetro]

I have a raw (no edits done)WMV file and also a raw (no edits done) AVI file converted of course from the WMV.

Not really recommended..
Try capturing, editing, and outputting to the same format..
If you wanna use Premiere Pro, i'd suggest capturing in .AVI, with the DV setting (NTSC or PAL), and staying the course..

Sequence Monitor window the playback is jerky and the audio/video are NOT synchronized.

Then you can't expect Encore to fix this..
Jerky playback is expected, but your audio synch at this point is the sticking point..

Again, try working with .AVI's only, especially if you think you're gonna go the DVD route..
The only thing i use .WMV for, is for e-mailing little clips to friends and family..It's primarily used for streaming video..

[edDV]

As said, if you can go back and start over. Capture your tape this way in Movie maker. You could also do it through Premiere capture if you wish.

Movie Maker2
1. Capture from Video Device
2. Select DV Device
3. Name the capture file
4. Video Setting = "Digital Device Format (DV-AVI)"
5. Capture manually, capture the portion of the tape of interest.

Note: Expect 13.5GB per hour of DV material.

Done. Use that file to import into Premiere. It will have a *.avi descriptor. The file contains DV format which is native to both your camera and Premiere..

[chris18]

Thanks for the replies.

Looks like I'll have to start from scratch. This time I think I'll capture straight from Premier Pro. Will have to check about capturing manually so I don't save the bad bits, thus avoiding editing if I can.

Didn't realise that converting from one format to the other could cause problems of this nature. As I said I only had Movie Maker available so that was the logical thing to use for capture after I bought my new digicam. It also had the advantage of being FREE.

I did think afterwards that manually capturing would have been better but thought I could get around that by editing.

I realise that WMV is limited to web use but thought initially that MM would only save in the format.

As a general rule am I right in believing that firewire capture should eliminate the video/audio synch problems? I played around some time ago with various analogue capture cards (I only had an analogue camcorder) including a Dazzle_DVC80 but failed to get around the video/audio synch problem.

Also can I assume that Premiere Pro doesn't usually suffer from video/audio synch problems with it's output?

Thanks

P.S I do have Presto VideoWorks that came with my digicam (Canon MV530i) on my machine but have not used it. They also supplied the IEEE1394 interface. Perhaps I should look at that in more detail although I confess I do like the Premiere Pro interface

[thecoalman]

P.S I do have Presto VideoWorks that came with my digicam (Canon MV530i) on my machine but have not used it. They also supplied the IEEE1394 interface. Perhaps I should look at that in more detail although I confess I do like the Premiere Pro interface

Makes no difference what you use to capture from a digital cam if your capturing to DV-AVI. The results will all be the same. The only difference will be the options available in the capture program.

Actually your not capturing but transferring, it's a lossless transfer similar to copying files on your HD. The reason I say similar is your system has to write the data fast enough, otherwise it's the same.

[edDV]

Firewire to DV-AVI file transfer will have no audio to video sync problems no matter which app you are using.

Your old Dazzle_DVC80 would be subject to serious audio sync issues.

[chris18]

Firewire to DV-AVI file transfer will have no audio to video sync problems no matter which app you are using.

Your old Dazzle_DVC80 would be subject to serious audio sync issues.

That's what I thought with Firewire.

Although the Dazzle DVD-80 worked OK the audio sync problems were horrendous so it was quickly sold on!