Diamond VC500 VHS>DVD audio synch issues

[Christopher R Taylor]

I searched the board and could not find this topic in particular, the closest was a thread from 12 years ago that wasn't any help. If this has been answered elsewhere, please link and let me know. I apologize if this is an annoying repeat question.

I'm trying to record video tapes to digital and the video works fine, the software is easy enough to use and I like the results. However, the audio steadily goes more and more out of synch as the time goes along and I cannot find any way to lock audio to video.

I recorded a DVD successfully and played it on my home theater system, and the sound was great in terms of quality and it took advantage of the home theater speakers; the video was fine for a 20 year old video tape, but the audio at about the 1 minute mark was a second off and getting worse.

I've tried AVI format, is there any way you can help me out?

[LMotlow]

What capture software? Are you capturing directly to MPEG for DVD?

[Christopher R Taylor]

I'm using the EZ Grabber software that came with the VC 500 one touch unit. I tried Mpeg but the video wasn't capturing so I went to AVI on the advise of someone online and it worked great, other than the loss of audio synch

[Brad]

JVRaines suggests AmaRecTV for AV sync. Don't bother installing their codec. Install and use a free lossless codec like Ut Video and don't capture uncompressed. AmaRecTV's interface is not what I would call intuitive, so hopefully you can find a good guide.

I don't like that it failed to notify me of dropped frames with the one piece of hardware I tested, but for your purposes that probably doesn't matter if it maintains sync.