Question to anyone who records and edits video

[mjquilly]

This is really getting on my neves now...I am in the process of putting alot of old home-movies on VCD. I capture the video just fine w/ my Radeon AIW, but the trouble is editing. I'm not trying to do anything fancy, just cut out some parts, but the audio always gets out of sync. Here's how I do it:

Capture w/ AIW - into VCD compliant format (I've tested this, and it is VCD compliant)
Use TPMGenc to cut (merge & cut option)

The audio is always off by quite a bit (several seconds). I don't want to have to fix the audio - I want to be able to capture, cut out the parts I want (or don't want), and have the audio work fine. How do all of you do this with out the need to correct audio sync? Any different software? I've been toying around with Broadcast2000 (bundled w/ Mandrake 8.1), has anyone used this? I'd prefer to edit in win2k, but I'll go linux if necessary.

 

[EBM]

Is the raw captured video out of snyc before you cut and edit it ?

 

[Rellik]

try adope premiere 6. It is not that hard to operate and the job u want to accomplish should be easy enough. If the audio is out of sync, you can easily "pull" it right in the audio timeline.

good luck

 

[mjquilly]

The video is fine when I capture it.

 

[imgod2u]

First, I'd suggest you update to the latest 7.1 Multimedia Center. Secondly, I'd suggest you use something like iFilmEdit to edit mpeg-1 format, it doesn't decode or anything, just rearranging.

 

[rbV5]

If I am going to do any real editing, I always capture Raw Avi and then edit. Frame by frame editing is far more accurate and easy, and pretty much eliminates sync problems. Then you can recompress with TPMGenc, or bbmpg or whatever (I've even used the internal mpeg compressor in Nero with success). It just takes mucho hardrive space and time. You can use huffuv to reduce your capture sizes without loosing much quality.

An alternative would be to capture mpeg "I" frames only, that will give you far less "tweening" of the frames, and then using perhaps Vegas Video from Sonic Foundry which I've been told handles mpeg editing fairly well.

In any event, take a look at VCD help and Doom9 for all things PC video.

 

[imgod2u]

I've had this problem of captures loosing a lot of frames (P3 866, 10k rpm SCSI U160 HD, ATI TV-Wonder, VirtualDub, WinXP). If I use ATI's default software, it captures fine, but with less quality, if I use VirtualDub, it looses frames. Any solutions to this?

 

[Quetzalboat]

May be you'd buy a true "Video Capture Card" for better result?
i.e APPIAN DV200 or DV500