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Hi everyone. I have a problem and I'm sure there must be a simple solution for this but I can't come up with it. A little background:
I videoed a performance using 2 recorders. On 1 I used a shotgun mic for the audio. On the other I thought I was using the on camera mic but it ended up with no audio for the video (a long story). My intention was to use both recordings in the multicam designer but without the audio to sync that wasn't working. I played around using the regular PD designer with one recording on timeline 1 and the other on timeline 2. After sliding them around for a while, purely by chance I managed to get the recordings synched. I split both recordings at the sync spot, removed the lead up and slid the remainder left to 0:00. So on the timeline I now have both recordings starting at the sync spot.
So my problem is I still want to use the MCD to merge the recordings but I can't seem to get the recordings from the timeline imported into the MCD. When I try to import from the media library it pulls in the entire file, not the edited version on the timeline. I suspect there's some trick to allow this but I haven't come up with one so any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks...
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Optodata - my goal for this project was to produce DVDs for the actors (students) so that is why I chose that format. Considering your suggestion I tried a different format (H264 AVC) and low & behold the sync problem is gone! I suppose that will go on a DVD just as well.
I wish I knew more about the various formats and what they do.
Thank you for your help with this. I was pulling my hair out trying to come up with a solution.
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optodata - I was so hoping this would work. Your process worked fine and I figured with 1 audio file the movie would play without a hiccup but it's not to be. The movie gets out of sync at or around the same spot where those 2 audio files were joined.
I'm thinking now maybe the only option is to break up the entire clip into many smaller pieces and audio sync each one of them.
This is getting extremely frustrating, particularly as I originally described, the whole thing plays perfectly if I view it in PD.
Anyways, thank you for your help.
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I hope I can explain this. I have 2 long clips (mts) from a theater performance recorded on video cam - each has the video and audio as recorded by the camera. I also used a separate audio recorder to get better sound and this guy produced .wav files but the recording was so long it actually produced 2 files. However the break for the audio and the break for the video are in different places.
So in PD I imported all then put the first MTS on timeline 1 and the first WAV on timeline 2. Then I did an audio sync which worked very well. After that I scrolled out to the end of the video and split the audio there and pulled the additional audio off timeline 2.
On timeline 3 I dragged the 2nd video - placed where the first video ends - and on timeline 4 I put the remainder of the split audio and synched those. Again it worked like a charm. Then I dragged the 2nd audio file onto timeline 4 and butted it up against the end of the first audio. When I play the recording from start to finish it looks and sounds great inside PD. The syncing is perfect.
Then I went to Produce it. Didn't do anything fancy there, used the mpeg-2 1440x1080/24p profile and that produced the .mpg.
When I play the .mpg it all goes well, audio seems to be synched up nicely with video until it gets to the place where I joined the 2nd audio file to the first. And at that point the audio gets badly out of sync with the video.
What I can't figure out is why does it play perfectly in PD but get out of sync in the .mpg?
If this can't be resolved is there some software that might join the 2 audio files into 1?
Thanks in advance....
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optodata - I agree it may be best for me to split at strategic places. The BluRay idea is interesting although I have never dealt with them before. I suspect I will need a BluRay burner? Also the cost might be an issue. I have to distribute the end product to 30+ individuals. But I will check it out. Thank you!
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I appreciate your reply but the recording is a 3 hour presentation-almost 13 gig. Past the capacity of even a dual layer disk. I did not try Smart Fit but I don't see how it would squeeze that much onto a single disc.
I guess I will have to split the recording myself. Was just hoping the Disc Menu Maker would help with prompts like 'please insert disc 2' or something to that effect.
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If my content is more than 1 disc will hold, will the Create Disc feature span to a 2nd disc and continue burning? If not does anyone know of a way to do this?
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