Audio Playing faster than vdeo

[Guest]

When I play the .asf clips from my digital camera in Windows media player they play fine and the audio plays normal. When I import them into windows movie maker timeline, the adio plays at a faster rate than the video. Any suggestions?

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

Do you have WinDVD installed? If so see this article

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814837

If you don't want to upgrade your version of WinDVD, although it's not
supported, you should also be able to fix it by renaming a couple of files.
In your WinDVD program directory you should see the two files iviaudio.ax &
ivivideo.ax, rename them to something like _iviaudio.ax & _ivideo.ax. Do
your stuff in MovieMaker and when you want to go back to WinDVD rename those
two files back again.
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When I play the .asf clips from my digital camera in Windows media player

they play fine and the audio plays normal. When I import them into windows
movie maker timeline, the adio plays at a faster rate than the video. Any
suggestions?

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

Audio playing fast is symptomatic of the "frames" being read in the wrong order
(Each image is made up from two half images) Most cameras will deliver these
frames in the odd numbered first even numbered second or as some refer to it A
- B. It may be that your software is creating the file in a way that suits it,
but not Movie Maker. I got this advice from Cinegy, they are a post production
company making Films and TV adverts etc.

When I first moved up the complexity ladder away from Movie Maker this was my
first problem. The problem was not caused by the camera itself but by me not
setting the new software. up correctly. I had allowed the software to default
to B then A. This played fine in Windows Media Player, but played with a fast
audio track in Movie Maker.

Having taken advise on WinDVD and Power DVD I purchased first Power DVD and
then WinDVD and consequently paid a lot of money out for, at that time, no good
reason at all. Neither purchase fixed my problem. But finding the options above
and setting them up properly did fix the issue.

So, what software are you using to capture your original file from your camera.
Does it write directly to an ASF file. If not, what format does it write to and
what program are you then using to create an ASF file...and possibly the most
obvious question, within the software that you use, are there any options for
changing the order of the half frames (A then B) or (Odd then Even)