PD Chapters Shifted In Time

Bruce

Newbie Joined: Jul 29, 2008 19:49 Messages: 6 Offline

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Jul 29, 2008 21:14

Captured 2 hours of Hi8 in 3 clips at 8 Mbit/sec MPEG2. Set clips end to end in timeline. No transitions. Set 24 chapter points in timeline by stepping frame by frame in preview window for accuracy. Created 2 layer menu with provided template. Burned DVD+R-DL at 8 Mbit/sec.

Everything worked great except on DVD playback chapter points are shifted in time anywhere from 2 to 30 seconds. Most are too early. Played back from DVD drive, from HDD, and on set-top player, all with same bad results.

Going back to the timeline or create disc preview the chapters are all where I set them and everything is fine. Please help.

PD version 7.1829
Vista32
Intel Q6700@2.66GHz
3GB DDR2
Nvidia 9500GS 512MB
640GB SATA2 RAID0

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Evan

Newbie Joined: Jul 19, 2008 19:04 Messages: 13 Offline

Jul 29, 2008 22:06

Something similar I've also seen is where my video project consists of one video file, but split and trimmed into clips.

In the timeline it looks fine, but after producing or burning the edits are off... meaning that later in the video I see video during a transition that should not have been there because it would have been edited/trimmed out (as it is when I preview the timeline a frame at a time).

It could be an artifact of the video/audio sync issue.

Cheers,
Evan

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Jul 29, 2008 22:30

I'd probably first upgrade to the latest version of PD7 and see if the issue still appears. Release 1915 is available from the downloads area of cyberlink.com.

I'd also suggest not adding chapter points until the very end of your project(all your edits are done), this tends to eliminate several issues which may occur with chapters.

Jeff

Bruce

Newbie Joined: Jul 29, 2008 19:49 Messages: 6 Offline

Jul 29, 2008 22:49

Thanks for your replies.

I just read the 'audio sync issue' thread and it is truly frightening.

The only editing I did was to trim the end of the first of only 3 clips. The last thing I did was to add chapter points. The chapter points go bad from the second one, well before the end of even the first clip.

I will do the 1915 patch tomorrow but I've read it may introduce even more issues than it solves.

I'm beginning to wonder if I've made a terrible mistake in purchasing PD 7 Ultra. Like the poster in 'audio sync issue' I too bought it based on a glowing review and intended to use it to only clean up and archive a mass of family video. If PD 7 can't even do that then it's useless to me.

I should have tried the trial version first.

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Bruce

Newbie Joined: Jul 29, 2008 19:49 Messages: 6 Offline

Jul 29, 2008 22:56

Just a thought:

Could this be SVRT run amok? Your comment about previously trimmed video appearing under a transition in the production might indicate that SVRT is not re-rendering parts that it should.

Bruce

Newbie Joined: Jul 29, 2008 19:49 Messages: 6 Offline

Jul 30, 2008 15:32

I installed the 1915 patch and it is no help. I burned to hard disk and the results are the same.

I was wrong about the amount of time shift. It was late and I didn't have the fortitude to carefully check the entire 1h 40m video.

All chapter points are early. The second one is about 10 seconds early and the 23rd is nearly 7 minutes early. In fact the 23rd chapter point takes me to the middle of the 21st chapter!

I only put 3 clips together and trimmed one. No transitions, no nothing.

This is bad.

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