If you or anybody else knows any really clear tutorials for novices on the concepts of manipulating digital video and DVD, feel free to share the urls. (and trying to sync it up!) Then making a DVD of the result.Īnyway, waffle aside, it seems I will have to grasp the technicalities if I want the possibility of better results with free software. avi, processing it in Audacity, then laying it back with the video in Windows Movie Maker. I've slightly moved on from that over the weekend, in that I have been taking the audio only of an. My biggest achievement technically has been finding I can use external codecs in Windows Movie Maker. DVDStyler is about as 'complex' or 'unknown' as I have got, even though I have no need to actually make menus. I usually have to admit defeat and crawl back to such programs as Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker. Sometimes I look on the internet and try out other free software, but the choice of fully free video software for Windows seems limited, whether in terms of quantity, available settings or 'user friendlyness'. I only really loosely understand file extensions/formats and the need for codecs. I have never grasped the inherent technicalities such as muxing/demuxing/transcoding etc which I probably need to. I think I could understand and pursue that if I really put my mind to it. I think that's an accurate typical set of processes i go through, and I hope it helps. One of the resulting files is VIDEO_TS.IFO which I treat as a test, and that often shows the described video/audio lip-sync issue when played in Windows Media Player. I then save the project and tell DVDStyler to burn but 'just generate' so I can have a look at the resulting files. wmv) I go into 'Properties' and 'Video…' to manually set '720x576' and 16:9 although I assume neither is necessary. I just set the default 'Menu 1' to 'jump title 1' as a pre-command. I don't change any of the 'core' settings and wouldn't know how to or why! I set the initial 'new project' settings to 16:9 and do the same in 'configuration' 'settings'. I then use DVDStyler to make a simple DVD out of the. wmv seems to play fine in Windows Media Player or Media Player Classic regarding video/audio lip-sync, brightness, audio and aspect ratio. I then uninstall FFDShow, reboot, install DVDStyler, reboot again. wmv is reported by Media Player Classic as 'Windows Media Video 9 720x576 (16:9) 25.00fps' video and 'Windows Media Audio' audio. avi in Windows Movie Maker to adjust brightness and normalise the audio. The main reason for this is because I appear to be able to successfully force FFDShow through the. wmv using the preset 'Windows Media DVD Widescreen Quality (PAL) (3.0Mbps)'. avi (608 x 336 and 25.00fps, reported by Media Player Classic) with XVID video and 'MPEG Audio Layer 3' audio. I have a reasonably powerful pc with AMD Phenom Triple Core 2.30GHz processor, RAM of 2GB, Vista Home Premium 32 bit, graphics of ATI Radeon HD 4350. In case it may help to know my specific needs, here is usually what I do : Is there any way to ensure video and audio stay exactly in sync? I assume this advice may vary widely based on the formats used? I assume it would play the same on a domestic machine, but I don't personally have one to test it, so I start all over again or try some different programs in the hope something will turn out different. However sometimes I notice a DVD made through DVDStyler (for example) slightly lacks video/audio lip-sync when I play the DVD on my computer. I only have a vague understanding of transcoding, container formats, etc and have to pretty much hope whatever free software I use just does the job. I only occasionally use programs like DVDStyler, when I need to make a DVD for my parents to play on their domestic machine.
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