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In sync in DVDSP, out of sync in FCP?? Help!
Hi all,
So I’m having a weird issue with sync. I worked on this film a couple years ago in school. We shot on HD so it took up a lot of my hard drive — when the project was over, I exported the final cut and deleted everything else. I exported it for DVD. The file name, which I don’t usually change from whatever compressor gives me, says “MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass 4/3.m2v” (this is the video of course). The audio is just called “new audio” or something like that. I originally exported the audio one way (with the video) but realized I wanted one track instead of the two it gave me. The important thing is, I exported the audio separately.
I made DVDs for the movie with these files in DVD Studio Pro.
Flash forward to two years later — here I am, wishing I’d exported a quicktime instead of this mp2 and aiff I can’t even put on my web site. So, I decide to import the mp2 and aiff into fcp, then export that as quicktime. I know I”ll lose some quality but it doesn’t really matter. I threw everything in a timeline and exported. Later on, I watched the qt and discovered that everything was out of sync. Going back into the project, it was out of sync there too. I tried moving the audio around to get it back to how it should be, but when it’s in sync in the beginning it gets progressively more out of sync as the movie goes on. And when I sync up some of the later stuff, the beginning is off.
I opened up my old dvd studio pro project file, which I still had, thinking that maybe even on dvd the sync was off and no one mentioned it to me. But when I play it in the dvd studio pro timeline, it’s all synced, beginning, middle and end. Now I haven’t checked the actual burned dvds to see if they are synced but I’m assuming they are. Which makes me think that there’s some setting wrong with my fcp timeline.
Anyone have any ideas of what I should do to fix this? I’ve never had so much trouble making a quicktime!
Thanks in advance.
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4 Replies
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FCP does not handle that type of Mpeg2 very well. First, rename your video and audio the same except for the suffix, so you’d have CoolMovie.m2v and CoolMovie.aif. Then load those files into the free MPEG Streamclip and export as a QT movie.
Jeremy
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Thank you so much! I will try this when I get home. Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking making an mpeg 2 and no quicktime. But I am older and wiser now. Or at least older.
Thanks again,
-Sara
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[Sara Iyer] “But I am older and wiser now. Or at least older. “
🙂 Let me know if it works or not.
Jeremy
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This worked amazingly… everything is synced! Thank you!
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