If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another!

[Steve Robertson]

I'm working on some footage of a musical performance using two 
camcorders- one on a tripod and one shooting alternate angles. If I was 
only planning to burn a DVD, I don't think I would have this problem. 
But I want to also export QuickTime movies of each song in both CD-R 
quality and Web quality. The spots where I paste an alternate angle 
contains audio from both camcorders. Since QuickTime currently throws 
out all the audio volume edits, I had to devise a workaround.

First, I edit the clips together. Then I export a full DV quality 
QuickTime movie. Then I use QT Pro to extract the video track. Next, I 
import the video-only QT movie and put it on the timeline. Then I go to 
the original clip of the entire song from the tripod camcorder, extract 
the audio and drag it into iTunes. Then back to the timeline, where I 
drag the audio below the video-only clip, and sync the two. So far, so 
good.

Twice now, I have gone through this process and exported the finished 
video to QuickTime. The CD-R quality version looks and sounds great. 
The Web version loses sync between the audio and video. These are 
typical length songs- about four or five minutes. Anybody else 
encountered this problem? Are there other codecs that might work better 
than just choosing "Export to QuickTime- Web Quality" from within 
iMovie?

Thanks,
Steve R.