Posted by blackburst@aol.com on 09/07/05 20:08

eb7g wrote:
> 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 note that no other responders have experienced audio drift. I have -
not in digitizing, but in dubbing from DV tapes to DVD in an OUTBOARD,
STANDALONE recorder. Happens about 50% of the time, in either composite
or firewire. Pisses me off. Other pros may not have experienced it, but
it is a very real problem.

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