Can someone give me step by step help?

[billolmesdahl]

Ok, here goes. I bought a Pinnacle Studio Delux with the idea that I would take my 10 years of Mystery Science Theater 3000 tapes and put them on DVD. My problem is that I seem to have a lot of trouble getting the audio and video to sync when I go from either .avi or .dv. It's a gradual sync problem that gets to be horrible by the end of the show.

My system is an Athalon 2.1 Ghz, with 256 megs of ram. I'm running XP and have a high speed IDE 120 gig hard disk, which is where all the vids are stored. I have nothing starting when the PC is rebooted except the bare minimum needed by XP. The drive has also been freshly defragged.

I guess my first instinct is to junk Studio 8 and try some other program (hopefully freeware) to make my DVD with.

If someone can help me with this, I'd be willing to share MST3K dvds with them.


Thanks.

-Bill

[jkl]

when you capture your movies, is the audio set for vbr(variable bit rate) or cbr(constant bit rate). also what is the framerate of the video and what codec is used in its compression.

[billolmesdahl]

I don't have an option to change how the audio is captured with Pinnacle Studio 7, or at least not that I can see. I don't think this should matter as the capture is always great. I get the sync problems when converting from the captured format (I think it's .dv) to mpeg2.

[CogoSWSDS]

My guess would be that you need to make sure you aren't changing the frame rate of the video in the conversion. e.g. don't try to go from NTSC film (23.975fps) to NTSC video (29.97fps).

There are apps that will allow you to stretch or shrink the video; try doing a search on this forum or in the how-to guides. They can be a BIG help.

CogoSWSDS

[LevelB]

There is a FAQ at www.dapcentral.org that deals with encoding MST3k. I am working on Hobgoblins right now

[crahak]

When you're capturing, are you dropping any frames at all? This would cause sync problems.