Premiere audio sync problem (VHS Conversion)

[stalkishi]

Hi All,

I have been converting some old VHSs Home Movies to DVD via a Panasonic NV GS55 Camcorder, capturing via Premiere. After I capture them Premier creates an .avi file that plays back fine (audio and video in sync) in both VLC and Windows Media Player.
But when I bring the file into a sequence in Premiere for editing the audio goes out of sync. (Not hugely out of sync...maybe a second or less)

While capturing there were some frames dropped maybe 20 or so. I guess this could be the problem but the why does the audio and video sync in VLC and WMP but not in Premiere?


Also I was able to get the audio to sync up by changing the speed of it to 100.03% (3 hour video) but then when I rendered it to an avi the audio was out of sync when I played it in VLC and WMP.


Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

[aedipuss]

use winDV to re-capture the video. you need to set it to stop capturing on dropped frames. then restart and capture the next good part until it's done. once you have all the available parts you can join them back into one video.

[stalkishi]

Thanks. I'll give that a try today.

[turk690]

In my experience, capturing long stretches of DV-AVI 3hrs or more with Premiere Pro nearly always creates sync issues at the tail end of that big file. I restrict capture to an hour maximum, then just string them together on the timeline. It's also infinitely easier moving and viewing/scrubbing a 13GB 1hr DV-AVI file than a 40GB 3hr file.
Seasoned users of Premiere also do not create sequences in excess of 3hrs. It's more stable that way, it's said. Many shorter sequences can in turn be nested in one empty sequence.

[stalkishi]

Thanks for the replies. I am having more success now by using winDV and limiting each avi file to a max of one hour. Thanks again.

[stalkishi]

use winDV to re-capture the video. you need to set it to stop capturing on dropped frames. then restart and capture the next good part until it's done. once you have all the available parts you can join them back into one video.

aedipuss...Can I just confirm how do I set windv to stop on dropped frames? I thought I had it but was just capturing some video and noticed it had dropped 12 frames.

Thanks