audio/video synch when editing

[zenlunatic]

I made a bunch of videos in Dazzle but now when I go to edit them, the audio and video always gets out of synch. It doesn't seem to matter what program I edit with. I've tried Dazzle, Ulead and TMPGenc and the same thing happens. What did I do wrong? How can I fix this? The videos before editing are just fine. I used the preset for DVD video (mpeg-2) in Dazzle when I captured them.

[zenlunatic]

This problem is bugging the crap outta me and it looks like a lot of other people are having the same problem. I read an earlier post that said not to use variable bit rate so I deleted all my videos and re-captured them without using variable bit rate. But I'm still having the same problems. Does anybody have any solutions? Or am I just screwed. The videos are fine until I edit them. Am I just gonna have to have a little bit of junk at the beginning and end of my DVD videos?

[zenlunatic]

I've been doing some reading of past posts and DVD websites and it seems the problem is caused by "dropped frames" occuring when I'm capturing the video. It's not a problem with editing, it only shows up after editing. Some ways to reduce dropped frames are defrag your hard drive often and not run any other programs while capturing. Also, don't set your recording options so high that it works your computer too hard. Here's some advice I got from one website for windows 98 users:

1) Run > MSCONFIG > Choose Selective startup and Uncheck > Process Config.sys file, Process Autoexec.bat file, Load startup group items (this will free up a lot of resources and you can always go back and select them after).

2) Disable your Background picture; Right Click on Desktop > Properties > Background > Select none

3) Capture in 640 x 480, or 800 x 600; Right click on Desktop > Properties > Settings > Adjust Slider Bar

4) Many computers have UDMA drives but Windows is NOT recognizing your drive unless you set it. Here's how: Right click My Computer > Properties > Device Manager > Expand Disk Drives > Highlight your C Drive > Properties > Settings > Check DMA > OK > Reboot. (This will enable your Hard Drive to work faster to keep up with the Video card).

Does anybody know how to do #1 in windows 2000? If this doesn't work and I'm still getting a lot of dropped frames, is there a program that will fix the problem in the video before I go to edit? And would seperating the audio and video help at all?