Hi everyone: I may be getting in late on this, so if I am, please bear with me.
First of all, you should NEVER rip your preview video directly into what you will encode your final draft version into. This is because (As you just found out the hard way), if there ARE any technical issues, they can be corrected via the preview version. The preview version should ALWAYS be encoded in either AVI (If you have a Windows machine), MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 formats. You can then load this version into just about any application such as TMGEnc or any of the others out there (I recommend TMPGEnc because its free while the others are either shareware or payware). THAT IN MIND THOUGH, you should be aware that.... A). These programs may not be able to correct *all* of the technical issues with your video, but they can help in correcting some or most of them. B). If the program or programs don't correct ANY of the issues at all, then more likely than not, the problem lies with the source file on the DVD itself. Not many applications can encode straight from DVD and still keep the encoded video bug free (TMPGEnc can only do so much to correct such anomalies). In any event, once you have your preview version, play it using any player. If there are no problems, then simply export it into your final draft MP4 video. Hope this helps.... Cheers Pat From: scoobyfox Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 16:10 To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] how to repair out of sync .mp4 files I just ripped and output (with Handbrake) a DVD from a show I did into an mp4 file. The audio is lagging a second or 2 behind the video. Is the only way to repair this to split the track in imovie and then manually try to re-align them? Is this a known problem outputting with handbrake? Appreciate any insight or help. thanks, heather [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
