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Trying to use Vegas in a sound mix but the mixer here says picture won’t stay in sync..
I am a sound designer working with a master mixer, and he refuses to work while the video is coming out of Vegas because he says that it stutters and drifts in and out of sync while the sound is playing. I have looked at the framerate number on the video preview box and it is static…
This guy has been around a long time and has an uncanny eye for sync, and I can see what he’s saying. When I start playing the video, it works, but then drifts a little out, and then comes back in. How can I make sure that the video (coming out of a Canopus box from a Pentium 4 with 3GB of RAM) stays in sync? I love Vegas’ editing, but there have been a rash of issues getting it to work in the studio……
thanks!
cory
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2 Replies
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You will always have perfectly locked a/v sync at all times if you use Windows sencondary display for your video monitoring.
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I’ve never noticed any sync issues with Vegas, except when capturing (sometimes the audio preview drifts when capturing from DV, but it’s not a real issue).
Also, Vegas is setup out of the box at 29.97 fps (which is the correct NTSC frame rate). This might be your issue… if you are creating your music, or mixing at 30fps and your video is 29.97, the slight difference will cause things to drift in and out over time.
We’ve mixed dozens of projects in Vegas and outside of Vegas in ProTools, and brought the audio back in with no sync issues…
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