Line up audio??

[CuChi]

On my Solitaire when I bring over a certain footage of a film to Arabesk the audio usually lines up perfect, even when it doesn't on the monitor, it will be alright when I burn the dvd. (I've done that many,many times)

This last project, the audio is doesn't line up much at all even on the monitor 1-3 seconds off and as it goes further into the film it gets worse. I've deleted it 2-3 times and moved it to Arabesk and it does the same thing. Any suggestions?

frustrated!
Tom Harlan

[CKNewman]

Do both the audio and video come from the same camera tape/source?

How are you loading the tape into the Solitaire?

[jimmeeker]

Tom,

You may have a bad section in your hard drive. Try it on another project even better on a completely
different hard drive in your other slot.

Then if this doesn't fix it......try a "Scene->Sample" first and mute the original track. Then move it back and forth with "Range" to get
it synced with the video at least on the playback monitor. Then do a very very short test in
Arabesk to see if it stays in sync.

IF YOU HAVE SMART EDIT 9.1 (Which, I think you do....try the following )

If it's still wrong.....go to Settings.....click on "Record Playback" and then go to "play back".
Find A/V asynchronity (German Selling) and try very short tests of moving the relationship
between audio and the video back and forth until you find which setting works. Then
try a test in Arabesk to see if it works after all the encoding and compression takes place...
and try again until you get it corrected. Please use a re-witable DVD for all these tests.

Good luck my friend.. Say who is ChuChi, and where did that come from?

[CuChi]

Craig, the footage came from the same camera. It was a single camera shoot.
And I load the footage via firewire.

And Jim, I will try your suggestions.
The name Cu Chi - is a town in Vietnam and our home base when we came from the Jungles.


Thank you
Tom

[CKNewman]

Tom,

If the shooting was not continuous but rather shot in segments, you might try loading the video in shorter lengths. That used to help when I was loading in long SVHS tapes when I first got my Avio.

Jim may have something with suggesting that a sector on the hard drive has gone bad. How old is the hard drive? When was the last time you performed a destructive install of the operating system?