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Problem with Slideshow Audio
My wife and I have been using MS Movie Maker to do music and picture slideshows of personal pictures for holidays and keepsakes. We recently purchased a DV camcorder and upgraded to Sony Vegas 8 Plat.. We’ve been going through the tutorials and learning as much as we can.
I seem to be having problems with my audio sync’ing properly. Right now we haven’t even added any video, we only have .jpg images on the video track and music on our audio track (several differnt formats: mp3, m4a, m4p). When we’re working on the timeline and click play to preview, the audio and video sync for the most part. Sometimes the transition of images seems to lag behind a bit and get out of sync but if I click stop and re-start it, it sync’s back up. Why does that happen?
Also, more importantly, when I rendered my video to .avi they were not sync’d at all, the music was way out of wack compared to the timeline. I then tried to render as Windows Media Video and it was better but still many of the slides/pictures weren’t changing exactly as we timed it in the timeline.
I’m guessing this is something I am just ignorant about as a total beginner, but does anyone have a solution to these issues?
I also have another problem. I can’t use iTunes music i’ve purchased in Vegas. As a workaround I’m burning to CD and then ripping them out as non-DRM mp3’s. Is there an easier soution to this? thanks.
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2 Replies
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Hi,
About photos:
I usually decrease their size, don’t put a 6 MPixel foto into a project, the double of the project size is enough. (Not though if I plan to zoom in a lot).You should not have A/V sync issues. Maybe your computer can’t keep up while previewing, and the picture lags to audio, and you set up your project according to this lag; then when render out, the lag is not present, and you see the out of sync effect.
Try using a lower preview quality, I usually preview at 320*240 “preview”. Sometimes go back to 320*240 “draft”, if accurate timing is important and the project is too complex.Another trick is to preview at half or quarter speed.
While previewing, transitions are calculated on the fly, so the framrate may drop, but you see this on the preview window.
Hope I could help somewhat
Regards
K.L.
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Regarding images, my images are about 2MB each on average. Is that too large? When we’re done we want to write it out to DVD’s. Is that too large for that application, should I compress my images and if so how far can I go without losing quality on a tv screen.
My timing is on at the timeline. My computer definitely lags some when runnning the preview, but if I stop it and start right before the transitions, it happens right when it should. And I just changed my preview to Draft-Quarter and they were where I wanted them to be. However, the render is still way off.
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