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Ive just spent 3000 bucks puttin together this editing equiptment.....i have a 27 gig hard drive 7200rpm.....and the audio doesnt sync up when i edit. Ive been told to get somethin called partition magic....to separte the video.....Is this my problem?? Is this my only way out? anyone please help ....i dont want to spend anymore money!!
Jason
I responded to one of your posts already, but you still seem in dire straits.
Your audio doesn't sync to picture. You have Premiere and you don't want to throw more cash into your $3,000 system.
I may be able to help you, but I need some specific information:
1. Mac or PC? Which OS?
2. How many CPUs?
3. How many HDs?
4. How much RAM?
5. What version of Premiere?
6. What are the project settings?
7. What capture hardware?
8. Where do you notice everything going out of sync? Is it drifting out of sync or is it just out of sync at a certain point?
You may have to partition your harddrive. Premiere prefers to have one HD for the OS and application and one for the media and preview files. But it doesn't absolutely have to. You set the scratch disks in File/Preferences.
I'd like to help, but please start giving me some information. I know it's a bad situation to be in, but if we can work it through in a rational manner, we might identify the problem and come up with a solution.
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Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
gateway
27 gig 7200rpm
256 ram
450mhrtz
dc30 pro
premier 5.1
any advice would be appreciated
Thanx
Audio out of sync, eh? Been there (far too many times). Here's a link to the solution:
What kind of out-of-sync is it? I know that sounds funny, but is it drifting, or is it suddenly out? If it's suddently out, then it may be something as simple as shifting the audio tracks into place and locking them to their clips. (It's really easy to let something slip when you start bringing in a lot of clips. I did it yesterday and had a bad moment before I realized it was my own fault.)
If it's drifting you may want to try these tricks a guy posted somewhere else. His audio went out of sync and he was using a DC30+ and Premiere---
1. Set all frame rates to 29.97.
2. Set audio interleave to 1 frame.
3. Check the properties of each and every clip to make sure they are ALL identical in frame size and audio KHz as the first segment on the timeline - for example 640 x 480 at 44khz.
4. Turn off all background applications.
He did all of this after re-rendering clips that had many many edits. (He thought re-rendering allowed the system to pick up contiguous frames with having to seek multiple new positions in the original
clip---maybe, maybe not but it was the only way to resolve some of the audio
drift problems.)
You can also---
1. DELETE all previously made previews that were created as you worked through the timeline editing bits and pieces.
2. RENDER the audio for the whole portion of the project that would be put out to tape. This allows the audio files to be built in
contiguous drive space. (This is someone else's idea and I have no idea if it will work. I know he spent 6 weeks trying to repair a 53 minute movie with all of the audio out of sync.)
If none of this works, your hard drive may be so full that you are writing to the inside areas of the platter, which is much slower.
Consider uninstalling some software that you have copies of, then defragmenting your drive.
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Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
I'd try what says in the Adobe support file before cleaning up my hard drive or uninstalling a bunch of programs.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who complained that he couldn't get video to the TV screen. He reinstalled Win98 plus every single program, still no go. Then I noticed he had designated the wrong number of frames per second, and voila: problem solved.
Anyway you cut it though, you're eventually going to want to do two things with the computer.
1. Uninstall every possible program that doesn't have anything to do with video editing. Better yet, re-format and then don't install those programs at all.
2. Pick up another hard drive to run Windows and what programs you decide to keep off of. It doesn't have to be huge or expensive, just a couple of gigs will do. It doesn't even have to be that fast, since it's only Windows and programs. Spend a hundred bucks or less, and it'll be worth every penny. Besides, it's that much more space for video to go on your 27gig.
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