wav synching.

[CMDJ1982]

I'm trying to convert the Two Towers theatrical trailer over to SVCD, but I'm having trouble getting it properly synched. The same thing happened on my DVD rip of the first LOTR movie, so if you could help me, it would be MUCH abliged.


Basically, I convert the .mov file over to .avi with RAD Video Tools, then record the sound from the trailer with Total Recorder. Everything seems to be in order, except that the video is always a split second ahead of the audio. Even though it's so slight you can hardly notice it unless you are looking directly for it, it still drives me nuts every time I watch it! The sound never get more or less out of synch as the video goes on, it always stays the same 'distance' (if you will) behind the video throughout the entire show. Since that is the case, I've assumed (hopefully correctly) that nothing I have done with file conversions has caused this to happen, but is rather New Line Cinema itself. Even on my very own copy of the DVD playing in the DVD player I can see about the exact same split-second out-of-synchness of the entire movie.

First of all, does anyone else have this problem with their copies of LOTR? And secondly, I've tried to add an extra wav file to the beginning of the trailer sound with sound recorder, but I can't shrink the extra wav small enough to synch it properly. It is always too slow for the video now. Now I have gotten to where the new wav file is so small that it will take some new technique in order to shrink it to an even smaller size. I've been using plain old "Sound Recorder" in Windows to edit the wav (using the "Delete After Current Location Feature") that I'm adding in front to the trailer sound, but it won't go any smaller than 60 bytes. of information (at 1411kbps). I'm guessing by how much the video is ahead of the sound without the extra wav, and behind it with the new one, that I'll probably have to shrink it down to around 20-25 bytes for it to be synched.


Now, is there a better way to do this than I am right now? And if not, can someone please reccommend me a program that will shrink the file down past 60 bytes?

[wee haggis]

Open the AVI with Virtualdub.

Audio > Full Processing > Audio > Interleaving >Audio Skew Correction > Audio > Compression > Mpeg3 (choose setting to match audio input...eg:128kb/s...48,000hz?) > Video > Direct Stream Copy >File > Save As AVI.