External Preview works for ME, BUT...

clearvu wrote on 5/8/2004, 12:25 PM
I know that others have pointed to problems with the built in preview now included within DVD2. Their problem is not being able to get the preview to work whatsoever.

However, while I personally have had no problem getting preview to work, what I do notice is that the audio ALWAYS lags behind. Right from the 1st second the audio is not in sinc with the video.

For those who CAN get the preview to work, have you noticed that same out of sinc problem? From what I can tell, there does not seem to be any setting changes that can fix this.

Any suggestions on how to correct this?

Comments

SonyDennis wrote on 5/10/2004, 7:08 AM
You should be seeing the video lag the audio by a number of frames, not the other way around.

We point out in multiple places that sync is neither guaranteed nor intended. There are multiple reasons for this, but even if we took the time to overcome them, and you got perfect sync when using External Monitor, that is no guarantee that your DVD is going to play in sync once burned, since it would be playing through a complete different system using different technology.

DVD Architect external monitor output is intended for visualising colors, menu layout and safe areas only and is not an indication of playback synchronization of the final burned disc.

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wobblyboy wrote on 5/10/2004, 10:45 AM
audio sync is fine on my system
clearvu wrote on 5/10/2004, 4:30 PM
Thanks for the reply, "SonyDennis", but the thing is that the External Monitor works fine with Vegas. It's DVDA that seems to have trouble.

Shouldn't they both work the same way?
SonyDennis wrote on 5/11/2004, 7:11 AM
Shouldn't they both work the same way?

They don't and were not designed to. You'll notice that DVD Architect's on-screen display is active during play even when external monitor is active. In order for Vegas to have sync on external monitor, the on-screen display blanks. Since in DVD Architect this feature was designed for layout, colors, and safe areas, and not for editing and therefore sync, we decided that dual display was more important.

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clearvu wrote on 5/11/2004, 2:21 PM
Thanks for the response. DVDA2 is still WAY ahead of version 1.