[Jeffrey Ellis]

Just want to add my 2 cents. I have a friend who works at a drive recovery facility. I asked him what he considers the best mechanisms these days. He said without a doubt, Hitachi Enterprise edition SATA’s are the most solid out there. I did indeed get my FW800 enclosures from OWC, and I’ve been extremely happy with the six I have.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Wow. That looks like just what I need. I’ll definitely check it out.

Thanks 🙂

[Jeffrey Ellis]

The imported audio and video is listed as 05:26:24 and the wav audio at 05:26:25. It is drifting, meaning it starts in sync but goes out by 10 frames by the end.

I brought the imported audio and the wav’s into DigitalPerformer, and performed a time scale to get them to match, essentially shortening the wav’s by 10 frames. So now the imported audio and the wav’s match — but neither match with the picture. They’re still out of sync by about 2-3 frames at the end. There happen to be flash pictures being taken all through the clip, and they go out by that much at the end. So I’m just stumped.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Well, you got it in one.

So this is what I did. I used txmuxer to demux the .mts into an .ac3. Then I used belight/besweet to convert the .ac3 into 6 mono 16-bit .wav’s, thus successfully extracting the actual matching audio of the camera original. Then I brought all that back into FCP. And guess what — it’s out of sync by exactly the same amount.

It isn’t Vegas at all, but Apple’s lame avchd import feature. I don’t know how — yet — but it’s somehow shortening the video/audio on import.

GRRRRR!

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, John–

I’m not sure I understand how that help. If I do see that it isn’t the same length, wouldn’t it just render it wrongly again after I correct it? I guess, like you, I completely don’t understand what I’m doing wrong. Is there some difference between the project setting and my render job perhaps? Would that affect it?

Can I ask if you know of any program which would simply extract the audio from the .mts?

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Thanks, Steve 🙂

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Mike–

Thanks for the reply.

So what about the orphaned warning. Should I be concerned?

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Steven–

I found it. For anyone else who wants to know, to create a disc image, click Make DVD–>Burn, and select ISO Image Writer from the Device popup menu.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Mike–

Thanks for the advice. I changed the disc properties as you suggested, and also, when creating the project to reflect the 5.1 Surround. The file seems to come in well, but when I see it in the timeline, it’s still stereo. Is this just the display of an .ac3, and it will actually burn in 5.1?

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi, Michael–

I used your version and miraculously, this time it all just worked. So thank you again 🙂

I noticed you suggested I use DVDSP to burn this to a DVD. Can you tell me how to do that, so that it will auto-play, no menus?