I'm new at this, so be gentle. I captured several hours of Into The West tv show with no problem. I transcoded one night's (2 hours) by means of ArcSoft to MPEG2 format. I have successfully cut out the commercials by means of Ulead Moviefactory 4. The Moviefactory software takes me all of the way to its player (it says to test my product), and the video and sound are in perfect sync. After many tries on the final step, I cannot burn to a DL DVD without the video and audio being out of sync. (It is too large for a regular DVD.) HELP.
Hi I'm on the same journey myself - converting VHS tapes to digital via a DVD recorder and now trying to edit them. I tried Movie Maker 3 and also Ulead Video Studio 8. Same problem. Bad audio/video sync problems. The answer - these programmes aren't suited to editing mpeg [or VOB] files. Once your files are in this format you have two options really: 1. re-encode back to something like avi and edit then athor back to dvd again [!] 2. use a specialist MPEG editor. I have just been trying out an excellent one called Womble MPEG Video Wizard [free trial at http://www.womble.com/ ] I suggest to do a Google on it as well to find reviews etc. I must say I am finding it excellent. Great to cut out ads, add transitions etc. Once you edit the mpeg yo uthen need to author it to burn to DVD. I tried Movie Factory just to do that but same sync problem. I am now looking at TMPGEnc DVD Author as an alternative. Looks good so far. Similarly, Adobe Premiere Elements isn't designed to edit mpeg. Again, you need to use one of the options above. Hope this helps. << Download a trial of Womble. You'll be pleasantly surprised>>
