[MacDV] iMovie 3.0.3 Audio sync issues

[R B Williams]

Chips,

You would be so much happier in the long run to use this as your opportunity to learn
Final Cut. Here's the work sequence I would follow.

1) Export your iMovie project to tape.

2) Capture live from tape into Final Cut as one reel.

3) Drop the footage into the canvas window.

<<<<<<You must use a TV monitor for this next step. It is impossible to sync correctly
watching playback on the Mac computer screen. >>>>>

4) Start playback of the sequence. At any point the sync drift becomes noticible, use
the razor tool to cut the audio tracks. Then slide the part on the right as many frames
as you need to (either way) for audio to line up again.

5) When the 53 min reel looks good, you may want to add audio crossfades at the cut
points to soften the rough edges. Another trick is to cut and paste ambient sound where
it is needed.

6) Add chapter marks where you want the DVD to have them.

7) Mixdown the audio (always the last step before export) If you change ANYTHING, do it
again.

8) Export as a Final Cut Movie

9) Open iDVD, import your movie and build whatever menus you need

10) Burn a perfectly synced project

R.B.

Chips Otoole wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a 53 minute project in iMovie wherein the audio and video quickly
> become out of sync, but the individual clips play just fine. I can see
> several darker blue 'gaps' in the timeline, in between many of the clips
> themselves, and don't recall seeing those before. I have several titles in
> the beginning, a few effects here and there, but nothing I havent used
> before. And I've sped up several of the clips themselves to play rather
> quickly. I'm not sure that it had anything to do with it, but only noticed
> this problem after having upgraded to Panther (also moved the files around a
> few times on the same secondary harddrive). Tried exporting to iDVD and saw
> same results (which I guess makes sense since it wont even play correctly in
> iMovie).
>
> I'm thinking worst case I'll import into a new project and replace the clips
> in the same order and hope the movie file stays intact. Could it be a
> corrupted .mov file since the clips themselves are ok? I've seen suggestions
> online to extract all the audio from each clip? I'm pretty sure my camera
> was set to 12-bit audio for recording (since changed to 16-bit). Anybody
> seen this before or have suggestions about how to resolve?
>
> I have recently purchased FCP4 but am not well-versed quite yet, not sure if
> I can import clips there and reorganize easily?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Scott ('Chips Otoole')
>
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