Audio Synch

[magic1whiz]

I've been making back ups of many of my dvd's (with free software ) and I am aware of the whole difference in frames per second of certain dvd's. For instance I believe that the Dreamworks video is shot 30 fps but the movie is film so its 24, or something like that. Which is why when you go to transcode it your video is messed up. I was just wondering is there any software out there (preferably free) that can do this, the only way I Know around it is to simply not rip the first chapter of the dvd containing it but then you lose like the first 3-4 minutes of the movie. Any ideas?

[galactica]

wow, wouldnt this justify the price for a dvd archiving app? I would think so, how would you like to be able to drag/drop, click and sit back and in 20-30 min have a perfectly synced dvd thats ready to burn!?

how long does it take you to do this reencoding anyway?

not trying to say $ is the only way, but when I look at all the headache thats involved (as your finding out) the $$ is totally worth it!

now.... im sure there are ways to get it synced up again for ya, can you tell me in detail how you are going about this process please... and lets see if we cant fix the sync for you

[magic1whiz]

Well first of all many of the paid programs are just trojan horses containing some of the same software I once used for free. Its just made for monkeys to press one button and then the great people who made the original software dont get squat. Plus, the paid software doesn't do EVERYTHING. Its not perfect. But anways I use OSEx to rip the movies onto my iMac. If its too big I use Minx transcoder to compress it and then burn it on a dvd using the built in disk copy. If i cross my fingers and the movie is small enough, I can just take the element files and combing them into an image using Sizzle. Then burn it with disk copy. All completly free. Of course the only problem is the audio if you have those damn little intros shot in a different frame rate.

[galactica]

still sounds to me like your not doing anything "fancy" when compared to the likes of dvd2one or dvdremaster.

if you ask me, i feel i have MORE control with them since i can pull just the movie and keep the menu with scene selections working for that particular movie set. try to keep the menu off the dvd when you author your own, its pretty difficult!

the only other way to do this is to reauthor the dvd (as you are doing) which can have sync problems (as you found) and could (if you want one) require a new menu to be made (which doesnt look anything like the real dvd menu) and just takes lots of time!

either way, whatever floats yoru boat.....

[qshartle]

yeah, i would pay for DVD2OneX, its worth it for what you are doing. It usually takes me an hr or so to do the WHOLE process. with menus, subitles, and all. I used to do it your method, and it took like 3 days for 1 movie. with the exception of it being synced.


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