Audio skips on playback

G

Guest

I have created a movie in WMM with pictures and music clips (slide show
style). When I play it in WMM it plays fine. When I save it as a DV-AVI file
and play it after it is saved (on my computer) the audio skips in certain
sections (usually the exact same spot). I burned it and on play back on a
DVD player, the audio skips badly and the video sometimes freezes! Please
help, this is for my best friends wedding which is this Friday! YIKES!!!
 
G

Guest

I did try that and and the skipping definately was minimized...it no longer
caused problems with the video. But it still had slight skips and pauses.
When I go to save the movie, what type of file should I save it as to get the
best possible WMV? I'm guessing since it's just still pictures and music I
do not need the best quality? Thanks for the help!
 
W

Wojo

Since you are working solely with images and music try saving it as a High
Quality NTSC file.
DV-AVI is great for videos but causes problems when used with still images
and audio specifically the audio issues during transitions. Also the audio
problem sometimes occurs when you have a lot of transitions and are working
with an MP3. If the audio is MP3 try converting it to WMV and using that
instead. The audio problem will "probably" go away entirely.
Another point to make is that if your project is 100% images and audio then
Photo Story 3 is a better program to use since it is designed to work with
images and audio. You get more transitions and better control of them with
PS3 and if you want to add titles and/or credits you can take the WMV file
created by PS3 and import that into WMM. I do this regularly and the results
are great.
 
W

Wojo

Hey Rehan
Just out of curiosity. Some say WAV others say WMA (I say WMA because it is
usually a smaller filesize than WAV) do you know of or have you experienced
any difference whether it is WMA or WAV? I haven't but I am looking for a
consensus.

-Wojo
 
G

Guest

thanks for the help. This is great. What is the eastiest way to convert the
mp3 file to WMV?
 
R

rehan

Hi Wojo

WMA should work too but all internal processing happens in WAV format. With
WMA there is still a decompression step needed for WMM to do before using
it. So WAV has some theoretical benefit. In practice the decompression is
not such a big issue.

As I understand the issue... the reason it sometimes go wrong with MP3 is
because some applications install and register other (3rd party) MP3
decompressors in the system which may have some compatibility issues. hence
the problem.
 
W

Wojo

Thank you I did not know that WMM processed the audio as WAV to begin with.
But since it is basically unnoticeable in rendering I will continue
recommending WMA as they are smaller and in many cases (definitely not in my
case) harddrive space is an issue.

That kind of makes sense with the MP3 issue and since it happens so
frequently and we find ourselves so often telling people to convert it
hopefully it is an issue that will be addressed down the road along with MPG
problems.
-Wojo
 

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