Using Pinnacle Studio 9 and audio gets out of sync..

[marty mcfly]

Hi all.

As I am capturing, not so slowly but surely the audio gets out of sync with the video.. my specs are way past what the box says.. Xp2600 2.13 ghz and 1 gbg of ram..

It really begins to be apparent about 2 mins into the capture and just gets more and more out of sync.. anyone have any ideas?

[jtoolman2000]

I bet you are capturing analog to digital right? Would not happen with DV to DV transfer. Are you loossing any frames? Pinnacle it pretty good at DV caps but not so good with analog that your pc has to convert to digital avi or MPG2 on the fly.

Since there could be so many reason for that problem to occur you will need to tell us a lot more. Source of the capture, the card you are using if it is analog would be good for starters.

Analog to digital caps are some of the most strenuous stress you can put a pc through. It's worse if any background programs are running in the background.
So please explain every little detail as to what you are doing as someone here will catch something that may escape someone else as important. Happens all the time. The more detail you give the less time going back forth with post after post till that important bit of info gets mentioned.
Pinnacle if not the greatest at producing and burning DVDs ( authoring ) but it does as pretty good job at caping, editing and rendering. At least it has never failed me on my machine which is simmilar to your specs.

[marty mcfly]

I bet you are capturing analog to digital right? Would not happen with DV to DV transfer. Are you loossing any frames? Pinnacle it pretty good at DV caps but not so good with analog that your pc has to convert to digital avi or MPG2 on the fly.

Since there could be so many reason for that problem to occur you will need to tell us a lot more. Source of the capture, the card you are using if it is analog would be good for starters.

Analog to digital caps are some of the most strenuous stress you can put a pc through. It's worse if any background programs are running in the background.
So please explain every little detail as to what you are doing as someone here will catch something that may escape someone else as important. Happens all the time. The more detail you give the less time going back forth with post after post till that important bit of info gets mentioned.
Pinnacle if not the greatest at producing and burning DVDs ( authoring ) but it does as pretty good job at caping, editing and rendering. At least it has never failed me on my machine which is simmilar to your specs.

Ok well I was capping analog, video from RCA connectors, creating it to mpeg and I dont believe I was losing any frames but I will double check that. I dont have any applications running but when I check the task manager there are 26 processes going on, I have no idea of that is detrimental or not.

I am using the pinnacle studio pci capture card also if that helps anyone.

I am not sure what else to say. :/

[jtoolman2000]

Try caping to SOme sort of AVI format and see if it helps. Caping dierectly MPG is never recommended and you really cannot edit PMG as it only allows editing to the I frams which I think is every .5 second. AVI allow frame accurate edits. If you do MPG and edit and them re render to MPG to say author a DVD you will probably loose even more quality and intruduce even more problems.

[marty mcfly]

Try caping to SOme sort of AVI format and see if it helps. Caping dierectly MPG is never recommended and you really cannot edit PMG as it only allows editing to the I frams which I think is every .5 second. AVI allow frame accurate edits. If you do MPG and edit and them re render to MPG to say author a DVD you will probably loose even more quality and intruduce even more problems.

I tried capping to AVI and got the same results.. not sure what to make of this.

[harley2ride]

If you search the forum, you will find numerous users have had sync issues using Pinnacle products.

[marty mcfly]

If you search the forum, you will find numerous users have had sync issues using Pinnacle products.

Really? Any other advice? What program is the one most people use to capture?

[harley2ride]

I use Adobe Premiere, or Vegas Video. Others use Virtual VCR, HuffyUV, or a host of others that work great. Go to the tools forum and resort the capture tools by rating, and you will see the most popular ones.

[julitomg]

marty which capture card do you use?,if a pinnacle one, which model?, or is it of another brand?

[Dr. DOS]

I believe the PCI card ids based on their classic DC10 capture card (MJPEG)

Go up to pinnacle site... they will give you many recommendations on capturing wtih the card. Personally I would shut down all processes and programs that are autoloaded and try again.

I ended up buying another analog capture card due to the ongoing sync issues I was having with my DC10 card.