film conversion problems

[hobo20212]

i have downloaded a film, the audio and video were fine before i converted it. i converted it using vso to dvd sent it to a disk. went to play it on my dvd player and the audio and video were off. i heard the audio before i saw the person speak. i would be grateful if anybody could possibly help me. or at least tell me what i have done wrong.

thanks

hobo20212

[Baldrick]

PLEASE change the subject title, use a more descriptive title. Just click on edit in your post to change it.

vso to dvd? convertxtodvd?

[mats.hogberg]

<edit>Never mind - B beat me to it! </edit>

[hobo20212]

will any body help me? or R they going to keep going on about my post

[mats.hogberg]

Now - Head over here, and start reading the rules: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic124514.html

Had you read them, you'd found three of the rules you managed to break with your first two posts:

Try to choose a subject that describes your topic.
Please do not use topic subjects like Help me!!! or Problems.

Please try not to "bump" your topic.
Replying to your own topic to get it to the top is annoying. Try to have some patience, this is a bulletin board, not IRC. It may take some time (e.g., one or two days) before someone can answer your query or question.

Please try to do some basic research before posting.
Most fundamental questions are answered on the How To's on this site.

The sync problem you're experiencing is common. It mostly has to do with the source AVI is using VBR audio, or audio offset.

/Mats

[hobo20212]

so how can i fix this problem?

[mats.hogberg]

Type "convertx2dvd sync" (without the quotes) in the search box on the main page. 45 hits.

/Mats

[Marvingj]

To put the sound together with the picture you need a video editing
application like Adobe Premiere. You import the AVI and WAV (audio) files
on the same timeline and then adjust the time axis position of the audio
track so that it is in sync with the picture. Since both the video and
audio are running with no speed variations, once you have one portion of the
audio and video in sync, the whole movie is in sync.

Now, what to do if you cannot capture the audio synchronously? You can
still do the job. It just takes a little more work. Premiere lets you
adjust the duration of the video or audio down to the frame level. I tended
to work by adjusting the speed of the audio, because adjusting the speed of
the video can introduce interlacing artifacts. However, you can adjust the
video speed if that works for you. You will have to take this approach if
the soundtrack starts out more than a few percent longer or shorter than the
video. Changing the audio duration in such cases will alter the pitch
noticably.

In your video editor program adjust the start points of the video and audio
as best you can and start playing both using the monitor function. As soon
as you notice an out-of-sync condition, stop the playback. Apply a cut at
that point. Your audio (and video) is now each in two pieces. You then
adjust the duration of the first audio piece to bring in into sync with the
video. Move the unaltered audio piece to butt up against the piece you just
worked on. Start playback again. When you notice an out-of-sync condition,
repeat the cut/duration change process. At the end your video and audio
will show as a number of pieces on the timeline. Since these pieces all
butt up against one another, there will be no visual or audio breaks when
playing the movie. I had to use this approach on several films that had the
sound on reel-to-reel tapes. My dad had a way to synchronize these tapes
with the picture. I won't go into that here. I could not use his method.
The reel-to-reel recorder I have runs "wild" (i.e., not synchronously).

When complete, export the movie (picture and sound) to a new AVI file, and
then export to a DVD using an authoring program like Adobe Encore.