#Sound in Sync
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Dave,
As always, thanks for the response, but this time you lost me on a couple of
things.
1) How do you edit the animation and sound separately, and after editing,
recombine them into a "playback edition"? I am already using Studio for
animation (of course) and Soundlab for audio. What is "separately" and then how
do I "Recombine"?
2) I'm not setting any codecs right now.(in studio the compression setting is
set to " No Recompression") However, when I open the file in Soundlab and check
the compression options under the file pull down, it says my file is a Autodesk
RLE compression format. Is this a default? and if so is it helping to cause the
sync problem as you said? I'm willing to forgo compression for quality sake if
necessary. How do I do this?
3) As far as the Autowave Error msg when closing Soundlab, I'm using the R1.1
which I received last week. (It's a real improvement but it does seem to have a
few new wrinkles).
Many Thanks.
Barry
>> As always, thanks for the response, but this time you lost me on a couple of
things. <<
oops. sorry. <g> let's see if i can clarify.
>> 1) How do you edit the animation and sound separately, and after editing,
recombine them into a "playback edition"? I am already using Studio for
animation (of course) and Soundlab for audio. What is "separately" and then how
do I "Recombine"? <<
it is possible to save only the video or audio portion of a movie. when working
in video… always use 24-bit lossless codec. when working in sound, maintain
sound info as a wav file. the playback edition is simply the codec video used
for sound synchronizing. put another way… the 24-bit lossless version is not
a play-version.. too choppy. use a lossy version to do your sound synchs with.
make sense? if you use the same lossy codec for sound synch (even though you
continue to use a 24-bit codec for editing), you will consistently keep sound
and video tied together for the joint lossy playback AVI.
<now i've probably really confused you> <gg>
>> 2) I'm not setting any codecs right now.(in studio the compression setting
is set to " No Recompression") However, when I open the file in Soundlab and
check the compression options under the file pull down, it says my file is a
Autodesk RLE compression format. Is this a default? and if so is it helping to
cause the sync problem as you said? I'm willing to forgo compression for
quality sake if necessary. How do I do this? <<
no recompression is the default. this is lossless (24-bit). before you go into
soundlab to do work… save the movie as a 24-bit lossless and as a lossy (like
cinepak or indeo)… once saved… use the lossy for sound synching. take
note… be SURE to save and close down any animations in animator module before
working in Soundlab. otherwise, when you try to save a new AVI with sound in
Soundlab, you'll get s share violation error since the file is still open over
in Animator module.
>> 3) As far as the Autowave Error msg when closing Soundlab, I'm using the
R1.1 which I received last week. (It's a real improvement but it does seem to
have a few new wrinkles). <<
that it does. and we're still dealing with the infamous (2,2,2) background
problem. on our third round. >:(
-dave
Dave,
Thanks for trying, but…
Are you saying that the only way to consistently keep sound and video tied
together is to use a joint lossy playback AVI. If so, I think that we are in
trouble because the quality of the lossy codecs is not useable for my needs.
What uses is the souldlab modulde designed for?
Barry
>> Are you saying that the only way to consistently keep sound and video tied
together is to use a joint lossy playback AVI. If so, I think that we are in
trouble because the quality of the lossy codecs is not useable for my needs. <<
nope. what i'm saying is that if you don't want slippage… you need to be
consistent with the video and audio data when they are mixed. successive saves
using lossy codecs will throw the two layers of data out of sync.
-dave