Vegas audio Emergency! Help please!

NewYorkLion

NewYorkLion

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Hey all,

Just shot an indian music video and I'm running into a major problem in post. My audio from the video is out of sync with the Wav file the client gave me! It seems like the audio from the video is about half a second longer than the wav.

Anyway, I shot in 24p (not 24pa) and I'm editing with vegas 5 on a 24p timeline. The client says the wav file he gave me is the exact one he used to make the CD we used for playback on the video and I know I've dealt with this problem before and I can't remember how I fixed it as its been a long time since I cut anything.

I'm thinking that there is either a setting that I need to change in vegas, or that the client needs to re-render the wav file in a different format (we've already tried WMA and AVI) He's using soundforge 5 and there is no 24p option as far as rendering is concerned, only 24 frames for film. would that help?

Arggh. help a brother out and I'lll give you credit as post-coordinator or something.

-colin
 
I guess I should add that it's not just lagging through firewire, I can see it lagging on the waveform. It starts out in sync and then gradually goes out of sync! ack, this sucks.
 
24 frames for film will be very, very close.

Unless the video is one long continuous take, this shouldn't be a problem. You're going to edit and make cuts, right? Any clip you use will probably be on screen for a few seconds, then you'll cut to the next, right?

You should be able to sync up the lip movement with the WAV file a little bit at a time.
 
Would changing the project properties to 24 fps film rather than 23.97 sync it back up? Then render as 23.97 when you're done? (Just spitballing here.)
 
Is the WAV file 44.1KHz? Try changing it to match your video (presumably 48KHz). This has remedied sync issues for me in the past.
 
NewYorkLion said:
do you know if soundforge 8.0 has the option to output as a 24p avi?
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Yes.

It has the following options:
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thanks for the advice guys. I endup up recording the CD onto my DVX via XLR and the recapturing it and it worked fine. I'll post the vid once the record label says we can
 
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