VHS to DVD...What is my problem??? Look inside help if possible

[ChiknHead]

Here is my system:

First off drives are defragged, video drive is cleanly formatted too boot, and there isnt a bunch of junk loaded
into memory when I do my editting.

XP 2500 + Barton
Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
(2) 512 Cosair PC-2700 512 meg Chips = 1 gig Memory
40 Gig 7200 RPM Maxtor (Boot Drive)
Adaptec 29160 SCSI Adapter
36 gig Seagate ST336607LW 10,000 RPM (Video work drive)
WinFast 2000 XP Capture Card

OK, here goes...

Capture is perfect. DVD quality MPEG2 is flawless, but when I attempt to burn to DVD using.....
DVD-It, Ulead Movie Maker, and/or Spruce up...audio is off and off badly...audio is always ahead of video
Its off atleast 7 secs by then end of a 30 minute clip

Is there some setting Im missing??? Surely there is a way to capture and burn to DVD without spending hours
with sound forge or something to stretch/compress/and gaps ect... to get the audio lined back up???

If have checked out vcdhelp but all I could find is info on how to fix audio afterwards..I want to know if you can and
how to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Any help is really appreciated. I got a stack of VHS's here and dont really want to invest hours converting 1 tape at a time.
If there is additional hardware I could buy that is fine, the key here is my time.

Thanks for any help!
Chick N. Head

 

[ChiknHead]

Surely there is someone who knows how to do this?

 

[frugal1]

I am looking to do the same thing, and so far my leading candidate for purchase is the Canopus ADVC1394. One of its claims to fame is that the audio is always matched up. It runs $250 retail, maybe you can find it a little cheaper. I was tempted to get this leadtek card, but after your post I don't think I will. Alot of people TALK about VHS to DVD, but you are the first person with this card to actually report DOING it. Thanks for the info.
Check out the Canopus.

Edit: I read somewhere that changing the audio to a higher setting (to PCX ??) can fix the audio alignment. It double the file size, but would be worth it to have aligned audio.

 

[DeathscytheHELL]

I use a Leadtek2000 deluxeXP and Ulead software

I had the same problem with audio not syncing up when converting from Mpeg-2 to VCD material
As it edited material the sound would fall further and further behind.

Check out Ulead's Webpage for new drivers, it helped for me.

 

[alexruiz]

Do you capture directly to MPEG2?? If that is the case and the MPEG2 played on the computer is fine then I have no advice.....

 

[frugal1]

pretty good reviews here on the canopus
review of canopus

The advc-100 needs to plug into a firewire card, the advc1394 is a pci card that also has firewire ports

other cards here

 

[LethalWolfe]

Originally posted by: frugal1
I am looking to do the same thing, and so far my leading candidate for purchase is the Canopus ADVC1394. One of its claims to fame is that the audio is always matched up. It runs $250 retail, maybe you can find it a little cheaper. I was tempted to get this leadtek card, but after your post I don't think I will. Alot of people TALK about VHS to DVD, but you are the first person with this card to actually report DOING it. Thanks for the info.
Check out the Canopus.

Edit: I read somewhere that changing the audio to a higher setting (to PCX ??) can fix the audio alignment. It double the file size, but would be worth it to have aligned audio.

Frugal1, I've run into a coupla people that had some misunderstandings about the Canopus ADVC's. Just incase you weren't aware of this, the term "locked audio" does refer to making sure the audio and video stay in sync. The term refers to how the audio was handled when it was originally recorded to tape.
There is a good (and mildly technical) article about locked vs unlocked audio here:
link


Lethal

 

[tw1164]

You can just use a program like virttualDub or similar programs to resync the audio. Its really easy. Check out doom9.org for more help.