Audio and Video dont synch

[keen01]

I captured some clips from home video wedding and made an avi. The avi plays fine with audio in Media Player. When I bring that clip into Premiere Pro to edit the audio and video are off? Did I capture it wrong? Import it wrong?

 

[LRSmith]

What was the format of your original video? Did you capture directly from a tape or did you convert, say, an MPEG to AVI? If it is the latter, that's the source of your problems. Can you give some more detail on your capture?

 

[keen01]

I used DVD Xpress to capture the video from a VHS tape. I used the program it came with Video Studio 7, set up a new project to make a DVD and it captured the video in mpeg format I believe it's 24 bit, 720x480 29.97 fps and mpeg audio layer 2 48 khz stereo sound, which I probably didn't need being this came from a camcorder. The mpeg plays fine in Video Studio and in Windows Media Player, but not in Premiere, which I want to use to edit video from my own camera and effects and titles. The video from the VHS is almost an hour long, I'm going to try and capture it again in shorter clips and maybe see if Premier will capture from the DVD Xpress. It doesn't make sense to me why the clip is fine in other programs, but not in Premiere.

 

[LRSmith]

MPG is a compressed video/audio file, and it plays fine in Media player because you are not editting it. Once you bring it into Premiere, you are trying to edit and therein lies the problem. Premiere essentially has to interpolate data to uncompress the source, and this is never good. The result is often unsynced video/audio or choppy behavior.

You'll need to recapture to an uncompressed format (e.g., AVI) if you want to edit your clips successfully. There may also be third party programs to uncompress your MPEG, but I suspect the results from this effort will not be as good as if you just capture directly to a format such as AVI.

 

[keen01]

OK, Good to know. For the VCR I bought DVD Express so the computer and VCR can communicate through firewire. Premiere doesn't seem to recognize this device. So it is captured with Video Studio, made into an mpeg and so on. What devices works with Premiere. Can I make Premiere find this or use it?