How to capture audio+video separately and join them up again?

I have some VHS tapes which I can only play by adjusting the "tracking" control on my VHS player.

If I adjust one way, I get a good picture, but an annoying buzz. If I adjust the other way, the audio's fine, but the picture becomes grainy with noise at the bottom.

I can therefore get 2 MPG files via my Hauppage Win TV PVR2. I use the Ulead DVD Factory to make the DVD...

Can anyone recommend a utility to create a single MPG file by merging (and syncing I suppose) the two captured MPGs - taking the video from one and the other from another?

I only have a few to do, so don't really want to buy anything expensive to do this..

Thanks very much..

 

You could use TMPGEnc Plus. It has a free trial version.

File, MPEG Tools, De-multiplex, browse for and open your .mpeg file. It should show you the video and audio streams. Double click on a stream and save it.

After you have each video and audio stream saved that you want, then use MPEG Tools, Multiplex to put them together as a new mpeg file.

 

The problem is that you are going to have to capture the video first and then capture the audio after. You can multiplex them back together but if there is any discrepancy in the audio and video you will notice (lips not syncing properly). You can add an audio delay but then you have the problem of possible dropped frames in the original video capture. If you have dropped frames then the audio and video time will change at these points. It could work out easily or be a big headache where the audio file will have to edited at multiple times.

 

Thanks very much for the replies.

One more question - is there such a thing as a frame editor? The odd frame has poor video. What I would really like to do is remove the frame from an MPG to a TIFF (or whatever), edit in Photoshop and put it back (leaving the sound untouched). I might attempt to reconstruct using adjacent frames.

For anyone else reading this thread, I used the TMPGEnc software as moonrocks suggested. After demultiplexing I used PolderBitS Sound Editor to remove a slight hiss from the sound.

Fortunately both captures of the tape seemed to have exactly the same number of frames so re-syncing wasn't too difficult. BUT still, it took a long time to get the sync right when re-joining them. The best I could do was trial & error - having successive goes until it looked right. I played each result on WinDVD at 50%.

To get the MP2 sound stream output from TEMPGEnc, into WAV input for PolderBitS Sound Editor, I used Aare MP3 WAV editor which accepts MP2 files. PolderBitS then took the WAV file and output MP3 which went back into TEMPGEnc.

 

me too i have problem wout of sung sounds when converting to xvid i ann ask you when pputting the sound with the video using tmpgenc does it come in sunc or you have to do more steps thanks