Can anyone explain to me why if I load an mpeg file into Pinnacle Studio Deluxe 8, I get badly garbled audio? The mpegs play fine on other applications. Pinnacle has no problems with audio on avi files, only mpegs. Also, if I were to output avi files (in DV form) from the Pinnacle card's firewire/DV port to a set-top DVD recorder like the Panasonic DMR-E30 or DMR-HS2, would it work? I know a general firewire connection from a PC to a DVD recorder won't work, but a PCI card connection that's specially for a DV camera should work, right? I am currently editing video from S-VHS tapes using Pinnacle and want to ultimately put this on DVDs. Am I doing this the best way? I have a fairly slow computer (633 MHz) so a lot of software mpeg encoding would take too much time for me.
if you want to save encoding time then get yorself a good capture card that will capture to mpeg in real time so no need to encode later something like hollwood DV bridge (dazzle) will do the job really well. i dont know why you have the audio problem, got to think about that one, and upgrade, upgrade the computer 633Mhz really is not enough these days when it comes to Desktop video editing (or NLE)
I have tried the direct-to-MPEG approach with a Hauppauge PVR 250 card. The big problem with capturing in MPEG form is that precise editing is very difficult. MPEGs store the video and audio on 2 separate tracks and trying to keep them in sync is hard work. I am having no sync problems with the Pinnacle card because it captures in DV form which I believe it has some kind of time code to keep everything in sync. I am having mostly good luck with Pinnacle so far, even on my slow system I have not dropped even one single frame. I just can't figure out why the problem with the MPEG audio on Pinnacle. Could it have something to do with AVIs having PCM audio and MPEGs having MPEG audio? Or could it be the ever-popular problem with WinME OS? Oh, well, not a big deal since editing with DV files goes much smoother anyway. I have been assured by someone on another board that you can indeed output DV from a capture card to a set-top DVD recorder with a DV input. I hope he is right, since most of the DVD authoring software on computer is still very "buggy" from what I have heard.
