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Originally Posted by Sossity
I bought a concert dvd, & I liked it but was disappointing as the video & audio came apart & were out of sync for the rest of the dvd, making it impossible & irritating to watch.
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This is sadly a common problem. I see it frequently from cable companies, satellite providers, local broadcasters, corporate Youtube videos, and even DVDs created by indy filmmakers and well-known actors. It's really quite sloppy and pathetic on their part. Inexcusably so. There's no proofing or auditing being done between the editing and transmission/distribution, which is wholly unprofessional.
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I e-mailed the seller, & they sent me a new one, but it had the exact same problem. so i think who ever or company made this dvd were cheap & did a poor job of putting it together.
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That seller was a dufus. As if a new copy of a disc will fix a problem embedded in the content.
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is there anyway I could get it on track with audio & video in sync?
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Yes, there's a great method that will (1) maintain quality, due to no re-encoding required, (2) allow you to quickly re-sync the audio to video, assuming it's a simple skew (audio and video always off by
x frames or seconds), and not a sync error that varies across the duration of the clip.
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I am on a mac with imovie, handbrake & mpg streamclip.
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Unfortunately, a Mac lacks the ability to run the proper tools. You want to use Womble MPEG Video Wizard, which is a payware (free trial available, for one-off use), and it only runs on Windows. If you're limited to Mac hardware, you'll need a full editor like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro (an NLE with separate audio and video timelines), and you'll lose quality during the re-encodes.
MPEG Streamclip isn't powerful enough or feature-rich enough to do this task.
