saving edited movie to dv-avi - output is faster than input

[Guest]

I have a movie edited with about 50 clips. There is also a music track. For
some transitions, the music clips or distorts.

I've run into this before with titles and transitions, so the previous
solution was to save without music, creating one continuous avi file, then
create a 2nd project with this one avi file and add the music in.

when I try this solution for my current project, the avi with no sound ends
up 2 seconds shorter than it should be (3:55 instead of 3:57). Since the
video was synched to the audio, I need it to be the same length. Or I need
to be able to speed up the music by this same 2 seconds.

Or, if someone has a solution as to why the music distorts at the transition
points, that would solve my issue as well. My pc is p4 2G with 512M ram, but
I've tried on another machine with better specs and get the same results. it
seems as if movie maker just cannot process too many things at once.

Thanks in Advance to whoever can help.

 

[Guest]

Is the 2 seconds lost from the beginning or does it go off along the way? Is
it possible to put a clip of black screen at the beginning of your avi (with
a time of 2 secs) to account for this?

You can also try saving the music clip only from the original project where
the time was synched. THEN combine the two in one project. I think way back
when someone mentioned trying something like this. Time consuming, yes but it
may work.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Forgot to ask what format the audio file was. If mp3, that may be reason for
distortion. Save as a .wma may eliminate the distortion.

Steve

 

[Guest]

The music file is wma.

The 2 seconds lost are from the entire clip being slightly faster. So, for
instance, if I take the saved avi file with music, put it in a new project
and add the music in again, at the beginning, the music will be in sync, but
as it goes along, if falls out of sync. so for some reason the entire saved
movie has played a little faster than normal such that it plays 2 seconds
faster.

Normally I might think it was doing some sort of drop frame, but it would
lose much less than 2 seconds if that were the case.

Hopefully that makes sense

 

[Michel]

Strange you said the AVI file was shorter. My last experience about that was
that, for a 1 hour long project, the movie saved as DV-AVI was about 3
seconds LONGER than saved as WMV (and than whats indicated on the timeline).

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

You might be better saving as a high quality WMV file instead of a DV-AVI...
using a custom profile for a higher bitrate/quality movie.
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