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Mojo
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 2:37PM
I've been downloading clips and transferring them to blank DVD's via my Roxio program for quite some time now. Most of them work okay, but occasionally I find one that, despite working okay whilst on the hard drive, has a strange effect on the sound when I transfer to DVD. Thing is, on these occasional clips the sound is ahead of the video. In other words you hear someone say or do something a few second before their lips move. (???) Any ideas what's wrong here and how I can stop it from happening? Like I said, it doesn't happen all the time, only on the occasional clip.
conquistador
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Hellhamster.
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 3:57PM
Just a guess, when was the last time you defragmented?
Mojo
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 4:24PM
If by that you mean cleaning up the hard drive, I don't think it's that because not all clips do it, only a few. I'm thinking there's something going wrong between Roxio and the clip's running program.
conquistador
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Hellhamster.
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 4:27PM
Just a thought.
The only time I have ever had problems like you describe was using badly fragmented source files. Once I defraged my burning went just fine.
Mojo
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 5:33PM
I think that's what's wrong. Someone's done a bad job of fragmenting the file when they originally downloaded/ripped it. Can you defrag the source file then?
 
conquistador
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 5:43PM
I am not really following you.
I was just saying the more stuff you download the more spread out it is on your drives. Contiguous files are easier to process and burn.
That is just my experience and it would be a free fix if it works for you.
Also get NERO (just my advice, I don't like roxio).
conquistador
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 5:50PM
ALso the files weren't fragmented at the source they got fragmented as I was downloading them and my drives were trying to find free space to write them to.
The fragmentation I am talking happens on your own machine. Which is why I suggested you do a defrag.
If you do a defrag let me know how things work afterwards.
Also are you writing from a just nearly full drive? I get better results when I have 20 gigs free as opposed to 10 MB when I burn movies.

Edited by - conquistador on 8/23/2007 5:53:20 PM

kukm4
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so-cal
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Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 6:27PM
Are these clips WMV?
I've had prob. with those when re-encoding.
Have not found a good solution yet.
Edited by - kukm4 on 8/23/2007 6:36:12 PM
Mojo
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Posted - Aug 24 2007 : 5:54AM
Sorry, but I'm not much of a tech wiz, so some of what you said to begin with was a bit over my head. But I have remembered a perfect example of what I'm talking about on You Tube. You just watch THIS clip carefully and pay special attention to the lips on the characters as they're talking. In this case the lips are ahead of the speech rather than being behind the speech, but it's the same problem as I'm having.
And yes, these are all WMV clips I'm having trouble with. But saying that, most of my clips are in WMV and most of them work okay.
NERO, Hmm....I had NERO once but it was always making my computer crash, so I took it back and was told that NERO did that with some computers. So I bought Roxio instead and no troubles as far as computer crashing goes.
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