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04-29-2010, 05:27 AM
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Got the uploaded VOB file.
It's just bad editing by whoever made the retail source (or sent the broadcast, or cut the master). It might be bad timing between cameras, as the camera cut each time. I've seen this many times on conversion/restore work I get from studios -- cameras are not in sync 100%, so the edited final version is off. You see drum hits perfect in one angle, but the next is almost an echo effect, a/v not in sync. The cuts can be so small sometimes that it's just not cost effective (no ROI) to fix. I'd suggest this be the case here, too.

There's nothing you can do, aside from cut the video into many little clips, and then offset the audio by about 5-10 frames each time you see the issue.

Since it's socket puppets, it's not like they have lips to sync to. That may even be why is was messed up AND why it wasn't fixed at a much earlier mastering/editing stage, long before you got it.

Sometimes audio delays from the recording system are responsible for this, too.
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