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[oprexiousme]

So, I figured helping out my friend edit a quick 2 minute video would be easy, no problem, right?  Wrong.  Took the 2 minutes of footage on a new Ipod, upload it into the program and put the overlays over the entire thing, etc.  All pictures with the video's footage as the audio narrating it.  Got it totally edited and the way we wanted it, nothing fancy but everything worked in the preview exactly how we wanted it.  So, because it is going on YouTube and we did not need to burn it to a DVD, I just outputted it as smallest file size since quality wasn't really an issue here.  When the file was done, I opened it up in Windows Media Player and yup, it's all messed up!  The sound is not syncing correctly with the overlays at all any more, and it was not like the preview had showed at all.  It was even including parts of the video's audio that we had removed.  I've never seen the program do this before!  Any suggestions on what I should do?  I tried each file type, tried each option it gave me on there and it came out the same way each time.

Thank you,
Alison

[sknis]

So, I figured helping out my friend edit a quick 2 minute video would be easy, no problem, right?  Wrong.  Took the 2 minutes of footage on a new Ipod, upload it into the program and put the overlays over the entire thing, etc.  All pictures with the video's footage as the audio narrating it.  Got it totally edited and the way we wanted it, nothing fancy but everything worked in the preview exactly how we wanted it.  So, because it is going on YouTube and we did not need to burn it to a DVD, I just outputted it as smallest file size since quality wasn't really an issue here.  When the file was done, I opened it up in Windows Media Player and yup, it's all messed up!  The sound is not syncing correctly with the overlays at all any more, and it was not like the preview had showed at all.  It was even including parts of the video's audio that we had removed.  I've never seen the program do this before!  Any suggestions on what I should do?  I tried each file type, tried each option it gave me on there and it came out the same way each time.

Thank you,
Alison

A few details about the computer please.

1) How much free space on the hard drive? Are you using the system hard drive or an external?
2) When was it last Defragmented?
3) What operating system.  If XP, turn down the audio acceleration via Windows/Start/run/ dxdiag.exe
4) How did you get the video from the IPOD to the computer?
5) What format did you output?
6) Did you have the anti-virus running and scanning everything that was written to the hard drive? (Usual cause).
7) Did you use Video Wave to do the editing?
8) Always clear the proxy file by going to tools/options/clear proxy files when you get ghost audio.
9) At the same location, select software render.
and of course, does the computer meet the minimum requirements for the program. (CPU speed.)

[CasualSoul]

So, I figured helping out my friend edit a quick 2 minute video would be easy, no problem, right?  Wrong.  Took the 2 minutes of footage on a new Ipod, upload it into the program and put the overlays over the entire thing, etc.  All pictures with the video's footage as the audio narrating it.  Got it totally edited and the way we wanted it, nothing fancy but everything worked in the preview exactly how we wanted it.  So, because it is going on YouTube and we did not need to burn it to a DVD, I just outputted it as smallest file size since quality wasn't really an issue here.  When the file was done, I opened it up in Windows Media Player and yup, it's all messed up!  The sound is not syncing correctly with the overlays at all any more, and it was not like the preview had showed at all.  It was even including parts of the video's audio that we had removed.  I've never seen the program do this before!  Any suggestions on what I should do?  I tried each file type, tried each option it gave me on there and it came out the same way each time.

Thank you,
Alison

I had this exact problem, read this thread, and messed around with the items mentioned above to no avail.  I then realized that the only thing different between files I had successfully edited in the past and the ones I was currently having frustration with was that I captured the current files from my smart phone in MP4 format, where previous files I worked with were AVI.  I decided to try using the converter program to convert my MP4's into MPEG-2 format before splicing and editing...... and my idea worked.  The problem is solved.  It looks like the software had trouble editing MP4 and converting into MPEG-2 all in one step.  Hope this helps someone as frustrated as I was.  It sucks that I now have to re-do my video edit from scratch with the converted files now though.

Edited by CasualSoul, 11 May 2010 - 04:02 AM.