[MacDV] Losing audio sync in iMovie/iDVD

Kim kphillips3 at rochester.rr.com
Thu Feb 17 15:47:28 PST 2005


Brian,
I am sorry I don't have any other suggestion. The 12 vs 16 bit issue is 
what I had always heard when there was an audio sync problem.
Eric
On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 04:08  PM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> No, that can't be it. The original video clips were professionally 
> produced
> using very high end equipment, and they were transferred to .dv files 
> for me
> by a professional dub house. I called the dub house and they said no, 
> 12 and
> 16 bit don't apply here, and that wouldn't be the issue. Any other 
> ideas?
>
> Brian
>
> On 2/17/05 2:32 PM, "Kim" <kphillips3 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Most likely your audio was captured at 12 bit instead of 16 bit. The
>> only way to fix that is to export the audio then convert it in
>> something like QT pro.
>>
>> Eric
>> On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 03:23  PM, Brian Olesky wrote:
>>
>>> Using iMovie 4.0.1, I recently built a 6-minute video made up of a
>>> series of
>>> short, under a minute .dv files, with a few titles separating them 
>>> into
>>> sections. However toward the end, the audio suddenly goes out of 
>>> sync.
>>> It
>>> happens right after a section with two iMovie-generated title scenes,
>>> one
>>> after the other. Could that be the problem? Is there some way in
>>> iMovie to
>>> correct the sync? When I preview the "problem clips" in the timeline,
>>> they're perfectly in sync. They just go out when the whole video is
>>> played.
>>> (And when it's burned to a disc with iDVD4.)
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Brian
>>>
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