[MacDV] Digital and audio not in sync on capture

[Brett Conlon]

Hi all,

The other night I captured a little over 1 hr of footage off my 
brother-in-law's Sony Digital8 DCS-TRVXXX (can't for the life of me 
remember what the model number is and no one is picking up the phone at 
home to ask them) on my 17" PB to a 20GB external bus-powered firewire 
drive. I filled it to about 200MB remaining. I believe the tape is Hi-8 so 
it should be digital footage.

I began editing the captured footage and noticed about 5-10 mins into it 
that the mouths seemed to be moving a little out of sync from the audio. 
But it was too close to really tell. A little while later I then 
discovered that as you go further and further into the footage the audio 
became more and more out-of-synch - up to 2 or more seconds faster than 
the video right at the end.

I'm sure if I played the tape at the end it would be in sync (not like the 
capture) - I'm yet to test this.

Any thoughts before I chuck my edit so far and re-capture again?

Coj

ps. I took delivery of my DL LaCie drive and plugged it in last night. 
When playing CD's on it, every one I tested has a slight skipping sound in 
the audio. The DVD's I've authored play fine... Supplier is looking into 
it for me. Murphy is looking over me!
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