Posted by Henry Padilla on 09/06/05 14:24

"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 with those other guys. I've _never_ experienced what you are talking
about.

I've had to deal with sync from simply having the camera far enough away
that they sound didn't reach it before the light did, but that's a different
phenomenon.

I guess I have the same question as the others, what the heck are you doing?
Are you using Firewire? (If not then we can stop now. Firewire is the best
way to import DV, period). Some weird codec or capture card?

I dunno.
Tom P.

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