my video and audio are out of sinc in mep 15 - help

cribbsmc wrote on 7/8/2009, 12:01 AM

My video and audio are out of sinc.. AND when I try the fixes offered in other questions - my first screen when I right click my video file is multicam source track or master track.. which is not what I need to fix..

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ralftaro wrote on 7/8/2009, 9:51 AM

Hi,

What kind of video material is that and where does it come from? Did you have to capture this into the program from a miniDV cam or analog source? Did you do it within Movie Edit Pro? Or are these possibly some video files that you're importing from a hard disc drive or a DVD camera? If so, what is the file and video format?

ralftaro wrote on 7/9/2009, 4:13 AM

Hi again,

Thanks for the additional information.

If this is MPEG-4 material, the option to create a new frame table (which is probably what you've read about here and what you tried to do) wouldn't be available. That is something that is exclusive to the processing of MPEG-2 material.

For MPEG-4 material, you need to keep the following in mind: Since MPEG-4 compression was never initially designed as source material for editing, it has some shortcomings that make it harder to handle and a bit problematic for editing. If you're saying this is MPEG-4 material recorded on a hard disc drive camera, I assume we might even be talking about full-blown AVCHD material here. So, this could just be a realtime playback performance problem that makes editing difficult and makes the preview appear to be out of sync. Please make sure you're using the "Plus" version of Movie Edit Pro 15 and your computer meets the relatively high requirements for AVCHD editing. Even if this is not a performance problem and not just a realtime preview effect, there are real sync problems that can arise from the shortcomings of MPEG-4 material once you actually start cutting/editing and moving around within the material.

The best way to prevent this is probably by converting the footage to a different, less problematic format before editing it. If this is really AVCHD material, the program should automatically offer you the option to convert it to MPEG-2 when you import the files. You might have to reset the program via the "Help" menu to make the prompt for MPEG-2 conversion reappear again. You can also perform the conversion manually. Just import your material into the timeline, and before you start doing anything to it (playback, editing), use the "Export movie" function to export the video again in MPEG-2 or in Magix proprietary Motion JPEG format (MXV) again. Open a new project, re-import the converted files and start editing these. (The MXV format is ideal for smooth and stable editing.)

I hope this info above helps and you can work out the problem.