Posted by Toby on 05/11/06 03:36

"Richard Crowley" <richard.7.crowley@intel.com> wrote in message
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> "Toby" wrote...
>> I have just entered the new world of trying to burn content to DVDs
>> instead of going to tape. I've got a 90 minute program cut on the Avid
>> which I tried transcoding and burning with Nero 7. The audio drifts--it
>> is slower than the video by a full 1.5 seconds at the end of the program.
>> This is driving me nuts...I've checked the exported version of the
>> program and it is fine, but by the time it gets on the DVD it is not. Is
>> Nero buggy? I've never had any trouble duping CDs or DVDs or burning data
>> discs. I've looked under the configure menu and don't see any real audio
>> settings, apart from enabling or disabling "smartburn" or whatever it is
>> called. Is this a sampling rate problem? Alternately, does anyone have
>> any good suggestions for DVD burning software which might solve this
>> problem?
>
> I have done scores of productions without any of these kinds of problems.
> I use Adobe Premiere to edit (and then export M2V) and then Adobe
> Encore to author the DVDs (making IMG image files). I use DVDdecrypter
> to burn the IMG image files to the DVD discs because I typically need to
> do
> lots of "re-orders" where I need to burn more discs on demand.
>
> Adobe Premiere has a simple DVD authoring and burning feature included
> (which I have never used) and Adobe Encore will also do burning itself.
> But
> I prefer DVDdecrypter as it gives infinitely more information about the
> burning process.
>
> What kind of file did you use to get the video from Avid to Nero?
> Have you tried other options (other file types, having Avid encode
> MPEG instead of Nero, etc. etc.etc.)?

I exported from Avid as a DV stream, since Nero doesn't seem to like QT
reference movies, which is how they are normally exported for authoring from
Avid. I did a web search and found out that audio drift is a major problem
in authoring DVDs, with Nero and with other software. At present I solved
the problem with a burning/authoring program called ConvertXtoDVD. The audio
is now perfect, but I am seeing some motion artifacts that were not there in
the Nero burn, so I am still experimenting. I do have Encore, and I guess
now is the time to learn how to use it. Thanks also for the tip on
DVDdecrypter.

Toby

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