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  Audio/Video speed correction

  Posted by Gerald Stokes on May 30, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  Hello,

  First time poster, this is great site! Spend hours learning from others postings. I have been editing video mostly for fun for about 20 years, restoring old music video, mainly taking old videos with bad audio and resynching to CD sound. I have always done it the old dinosaur way. using a DVC VCR and laying down the video then dropping new audio onto the second audio tracks from a CD player that has a pitch control that can go -12 to +12%. I get a start point then drop in new audio. After I can toggle back and forth to see if they are in synch. I’ve always been able to get them close, but never 100%. If you have a 10min segment, the audio start to get out of synch. I am sure I need something like Vegas to have much more control over this.

  Here’s what I would like help with.

  I have a 20 min music video that is running approx 3.5% slow. It has audio with it that matches the film fine, but again they are both running slow. I not only want to fix this issue, but I want to add a second audio track with remastered audio. The remastered audio I have is on a CD and runs at the correct speed. I am not sure of the best way to start this project. Should I work on speeding up the original video and audio at the same time (can you speed or slow down the video and audio at the same time?) The other issue, the CD audio is not a perfect match to the original. It only has segments that match the film, so I can’t just drop in the entire CD and have it match the original sound. It will have to dropped in by segments. I also see there are many options of pitching the audio; I know nothing about matching to the beat etc…I’ve always just slowed or speed up the cd to match the video. I want to keep the original pitch but be able to speed or slow as needed.

  The way I was going to start the project:

  Rip the 20min DVD and that will give me the original video and audio running slow. Dump them in the time-line. Next drop in the new CD sound in segments. Slow down the correct pitch CD? To match the original audio. Then I will have all sources running slow. Then I guess I would lock all Video/Audio on the timeline and speed them up???

  Sorry for the long post. I would really appreciate help with any of this

  Gerald Stokes replied 17 years, 11 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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