[Ole Jenssen]

Thanks for your input Bill!

I will test on PAL players.

Too bad however I have to use NTSC with 720×480, PAL has about 100 lines better vertical resolution! 🙁
Hence, I wish I could render the DVD out in 24p (23.976) regionfree PAL 720×576, and that it was possible to play back these discs in NTSC land.

Will see, if necessary I will consider a PAL version as well, however, I think I can live with 75-80% compatibility.

Thanks!

Ole

[Ole Jenssen]

Bill, thanks for your reply.

(For 24p i now mean 23.976p.)

I have done some more reading, and if I understand this, and you correct;

A DVD player can read 24p footage, but never output native 24p. But the trick is to get the DVD player to do the necessary conversion on the fly.

And the best is to author the DVD in NTSC 24p region free. The encoder should insert neseccary flags (Encore/TMPEnc/AVIsynth etc.). Then ALL DVD players world wide should be able to playbak 24p footage @29,97fps progressive (Although my Samsung LED HDTV shows the 24p DVD footage as 59,94 when played back from my Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD player)

The whole point for me is to avoid unecessary work by doing any kind of conversion for the DVD, and let the DVD player do the conversion when playing back the DVD. Also this will ensure the DVD will play back correctly in both NTSC and PAL land..

[Ole Jenssen]

Hi,

this is my first post here.

I just thought I should share my solution to the problem.

The exact same issues for me, audio preview is 2sec behind the audio waveform (where the audio should be).

Tried every tips I could find on the net, including in here, but nothing seem to fix the very annoying and frustrating problem.

Then I started to do some thinking on my own. I have overclocked my pc (i920 quad core from 2.66Ghz up to 3.8Gh), meaning the timing/settings of the RAM to cope with the rest of the system also was changed automatically. I have more or less the fastest and most expensive DDR3 RAM I could find, so this problem was really frustrating for me. (Corsair PC3-16000 C8). My GPU’s are two NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX260 in SLi (not overclocked).

I reset my overclocking settings (Gigabyte EX-58-UD5 motherboard fw/F13h) and rebooted the pc. VOILA !!! Problem permanently solved!

Now preview is 100% in sync with audio!! 🙂 🙂

So it seems like memory timings/overclocking was causing this issue for me.

Now I have a slower computer, but at least now I can work again!
I will look more into this in details, and I will overclock my computer again and find the correct timings, but that will have to wait!

Why this is an issue also for Mac users I do not know, as I don’t think there are many/any Mac users overclocking. But still, it could be that memory settings are not correct, even on a Mac, even if not overclocked! – Memory timings could be wrong on any computer, even if not overclocked

So for me there was actually an hardware issue with this.

Why this is affecting only After Effects, and not Premiere Pro, I do not know.

BR.
Ole