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FYI - I'm just creating a DVD folder and not burning to disk right now. I get your point though. I'm curious what would happen if I did burn to disk. Do I dare risk creating another coaster? 
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Kevin,
Thanks for your help. I'll go the PRODUCE route if I can't overcome the issue. Right now I'm in the middle of another burn DVD folder attempt. Since deleting a scene got me further before, I'm trying some experiments of deleting and re-adding scenes. The experiments take a long time since it takes around 2 hours to create the DVD folder.
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Hi Kelly,
I would PRODUCE a video file instead. I would select mpeg-2 file type...and select the DVD HQ profile in that file type. This is the type of file that Power Director creates when you Burn to Disc...so it won't be wasted effort. You will be prompted to create a name for this mpeg-2 and designate a folder for it.
Kevin
If I PRODUCE, won't I loose my chapters? I have 33 of them.
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Hello. I have a one hour thirty five minute movie with 33 chapters that I'm trying to burn to Dual Layer (8.5 GB) DVD.
Here are the steps:
1. Go to Create Disk
2. Under Disk Preferences I selected 8.5 GB DVD video, Widescreen, HQ-Best Quality, Dolby Digital, 2 channels
3. The indicator on the bottom left says 6296MB out of 8500MB will be used.
4. Under the Burn menu I select "Create a folder". I did not click Burn to disk because sometimes the burn fails and I don't want to waste my disks.
5. I click the "Start Burning" button and the let it do it's thing.
6. The burn completes succesfully with no errors. The DVD folder created has Audio_TS (empty) and Video_TS folder which is only 5.22GB instead of the 6296 MB I was expecting.
7. For the heck of it I burn it using Power2Go to a DVD DL and it plays ok but at a certain scene the DVD ends eventhough there should be 10 more minutes left.
I've run through this process twice. After the first time, I removed the scene where it had stopped (it was only 10 seconds) and tried the procedure again. The next DVD I produced played a few more scenes than before but did not go all the way to the end.
Does anyone have ideas on how to overcome this issue. I'm not sure if it helps but the contents of the VIDEO_TS folder look like this:
VIDEO_TS.BUP 14KB
VIDEO_TS.IFO 14KB
VIDEO_TS.VOB 100,198 KB
VTS_01_0.BUP 60 KB
VTS_01_0.IFO 60 KB
VTS_01_1.VOB 1,048,566 KB
VTS_01_2.VOB 1,048,566 KB
VTS_01_3.VOB 1,048,566 KB
VTS_01_4.VOB 1,048,566 KB
VTS_01_5.VOB 1,048,566 KB
VTS_01_6.VOB 133,672 KB
I'm running PowerDirect Ultra version 8.00.3022. I've attached the Dxdiag for my PC.
Thank you for reading this!
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I have several rewritable DVDs. Too bad I didn't use one in this case!
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Hello. I was all set for a long day of experiments to resolve the problem but my first experiment actually worked!!
First of all let me clarify what the symptoms were. Upon closer examination, the audio was in sync at the beginning but by the time you got to the end of the 1.5 hour video it was a good 2 seconds off.
This is what I did to fix the problem.
1. Open my Project.
2. Do a File "Save as" and saved my project to a new name. (just in case I totally screwed things up worse).
3. On my newly saved project, I clicked on the first video clip, held down the shift key and clicked on the last clip. (Basically I did a "select all").
4. I hit the delete key which erased all tracks from the timeline. The timeline now is completely blank.
5. I clicked the "undo" icon on the upper left of the screen.
6. I waited a few minutes for all my tracks to reappear.
I watched several clips throughout the video and there were all in synch!
What I relief. I'm not sure why it got messed up. I have turned off the shadow files since I suspect that was part of the problem. I read about this fix on this forum so whoever figured it out thanks!
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Bob,
I've haven't found another program that will play my highdef .mts files on the computer with out getting completely choppy. I have played back the videos by hooking my camera up to the TV using HDMI and watching it that way - the audio was in perfect sync there so I think my camera is ok and raw files are ok.
I'll try your experiments when I get home and let you know the results.
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In response to your issue please note that the issue mainly happens if the Audio/Video card drivers are old. So make sure that you are running the latest drivers.
I'll check the drivers when I get home but I doubt that is the issue. I'll also do some experiments. From what I read in the forum, sometimes if you edit a video (trim) it will cause a problem with the sync with all the videos behind it. I also read that some people had issues when using the fade transition. I have fade between every clip in the movie! Somehow I enabled it fade for the first 30 minutes of scenes (movie magic?) and I don't know how to get rid of the fade in that section.
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Hi Kelly,
Just curious whether the audio that is out of sync is the original audio directly out of the camera or did you manipulate the audio using audio software before placing it into the audio track?
Mike
It's the original audio on the master video file. I did not split the audio into a separate track.
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Please help! This is my first project since upgrading to PowerDirector 8 and getting a new camera. I currently have a 1.5 hour project and the audio is out of sync with the video by 1 second. I sorta noticed while editing that the preview audio seem a little off but I assumed it was just the preview and that when I burned a DVD it would be ok.
Here are the specifics:
Camera: Canon Vixia HF200
File type: .mts which were downloaded to the harddrive and then imported into the powerdirector project
My project: A 1.5 hour vacation video of Ireland with video and photos, lots of fade transitions, a secondary audio track with Irish background music, some PIP stuff too. I've done alot of tweaking of the secondary audio track and the master video soundtrack sound levels so that dialog can be heard so that music is playing when there is no dialog to be heard.
The problem:
I went to create disc and chose the Create DVD Folder. I wrote to a 8.5 GB DVD the video_ts file. I'm able to play the DVD in a DVD player, it looks great and sound great except for the audio on the master video track being 1 second ahead throughout the entire DVD. It was at that point I went back into Powerdirector and notice the same problem while previewing the video.
I've done some searches of this board and read alot but issues with audio sync on .mts files but didn't see any solution. I did have the option set to "enable file processing to speed up high definition video editing" at the time I was working on the project. I turned it off because I read it might be part of the problem but I still have the problem.
What can I do to fix the audio issue without redoing the whole project?
What can I do in the future to avoid the issue?
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