Conversion Process VCR to DVD

[absalon]

I have a rather large library of VHS tapes, and seeing how easy it should be to put them on DVD, I gathered together the proper hardware and software for that purpose, and I can make wonderful DVD’s from my old and fading tapes, HOWEVER. . . The BLOODY SOUND is about two to three seconds Late!

I am using a video capture card in a P4, 2.3Ghz Pentenium system. I have a top line audio card which is patched into the capture card. Upon recording the tape onto the hard drive, I see no time distortion. I use “Blaze Media Pro” to inspect the file, being that it accepts just about every format under the sun, and the sound/video sync is perfect.

I am using Power VCR to copy the tape to the hard drive with, and that isn’t giving me any heartache due to the proofing I use with “Blaze Media Pro”. I use TMPG’s Encoder DVD Authoring software to make and/or burn the files onto the disk, and that’s where things get really funny. The audio slips back 2 to 4 seconds. I can’t seem to find where the delay is. Has anybody else have experienced this problem with their operations?

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Does anybody else do this conversion from VCR to DVD, and have a successfully working method?

Absalon

[Experi-Mentor]

welcome to the forum

imho, if i had a large vid collection, then i would have invested in a stand-alone dvd-recorder.
i've heard too many times about the sound lagging by 2-3 seconds

[ormonde]

"The audio slips back 2 to 4 seconds."

Load the mpeg file(s) that were captured into "TMPGEnc Plus". Click the "Setting" button at the bottom of the main dialog. Click on the "Advanced" tab and double-click on "Source Range". In that dialog at the bottom, there is an "Audio Gap Correct" window that will allow you to correct the audio by using a plus or minus value.