iMovie>MPEG2>DVDSP&Apack = out of sync audio

[CJ of FL]

I've done this before without problems, but I'm wondering if I'm forgetting something or if my iMovie 3 upgrade is screwing me up.

I captured some tv with iMovie 3 and a Hollywood Dazzle. I edited it in iMovie and everything is in sync. I'm exporting to MPEG-2 and running the aiff thru Apack's default 2 channel settings. Then building the dvd with DVDSP and the when viewing the VIDEO_TS folder, the end of the shows have out of sync audio.

What am I doing wrong?

[earlygrace]

Have you actaully burned a disk and watched it on a Standalone player, I had the same problem when viewing it in DVDSP but it was fine once I actaully burned it.

[CJ of FL]

Yes, I wasted one dvd already. Since then I've played around with various settings like the kbps settings in Apack and I still get the same results. Now, I'm viewing the VIDEO_TS folder with Apple's DVD Player and it's still coming out with bad audio sync. At least I'm not wasting dvd's. Any other ideas?

[earlygrace]

how long is your video? 2-3 hours? if so, in iMovie save the quicktimes in 2 files, like select an hours worth of clips and build the quicktime file, then select the rest of the clip and build a second quicktime file, then in quicktime cut and paste the second quicktime into the end of the first. then export your M2V and AIFF files from there. Get it? I think if you build a file that is to long in iMovie it screws the sync up.

[CJ of FL]

They're not that long either. I recorded 1 hour long MotoGp's and once edited, they're only about 40 minutes each. I've even tried doing just one 40 minute show and the audio is still off near the end.

Is there a way to play the m2v and aiff files together? Or the ac3 and m2v files together? Then I could determine where the problem is coming from.