Posted by PTravel on 09/04/05 17:32

"eb7g" <eb7g@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:huzSe.369600$s54.356645@pd7tw2no...
> Hi there,
>
> There used to be the known problem of audio drifting out of sync on long
> video files. I've been using Sony's DVgate for the last little while,
> which will split the video into 10 minute segments, so I don't get any
> drift. But the other day, I digitized 3 miniDV tapes and saved them all
> as one file per tape.... at about 20 minutes in, the audio started to
> drift and by the end of each tape the audio was out of sync almost a
> full second of time.
>
> Is this common? How do people without DVgate digitize their audio and
> keep the sound in sync? If I digitize in Premiere, as one large file,
> will the sound be out of sync as well?
>
> I would have thought this would have been corrected by now. That
> explains why DVgate splits up the video into chunks.

I'm unfamiliar with DVgate -- I use Scenealyzer Live or Premiere Pro for
capturing. However, I frequently have occassion to "bulk capture," and then
do after-the-fact scene detection and/or logging. I've never run into any
audio drift problems -- audio sync is rock solid.

Are you capturing using some odd codec? Are you sure there is nothing else
running on your computer? Has your computer enough power (it doesn't take
very much for capturing miniDV)?

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