Help with Video Editing!!!!!!!

[jaysemien19]

Good Morning!

I have a DVD from this past sunday that everyone wants. Unfortunately, the dvd didn't have audio during the sermon, but i was able to get sermon audio on a cd.

So far I converted the VOB files to avi. I would like to take that avi, cut the sermon portion out, and some way some how merge and encode the audio into the sermon so i can distribute these dvds. Any suggestions?

Please help guys, this was a very good message that needs to get out.

Thanks

[churchtech007]

any video editing software will let you do this.
iMovie if your on a Mac (Though you may need to convert the avi to mov)
Windows Movie Maker for PC
Just rip the cd to mp3 and it should let you import both. The only hard part will be getting them sync'd correctly.

[SterlingAug]

Originally Posted by churchtech007

The only hard part will be getting them sync'd correctly.

Wow, is that an under statement. I tried syncing up an audio stream to a video once. ONCE!

Then I told the pastor it was not available for the website.

[Toetagger]

There is some software that would help with the syncing if you really wanted to do it that way. One I have used with success is called Dual Eyes made by Singular Software. It says it can be used with any NLE software because it stands alone. There is also a fully functioning, 30 day trial you can download straight from their website and try it out.

[samchuck]

I synced audio and video for a couple months. The internal mic on the camera I was using was picking up the sounds in the AV room so I would take the house audio recorded to CD and rip and overlay it to match. You have to be careful though... sometimes the beginning is real good but gets off as the video progresses

[rjwalker]

FWIW, I just ran across some info on you tube suggesting that the sampling rate of the video and separate audio should be the same to keep sync over the length of a recording.

[cjsebes]

The slowly-every-so-unsyncing audio issues is most likely a difference in the sample rates of your video and audio source. DV audio is 48k. Audio CDs are 44.1k. You'll need to convert the audio from the CD to 48k (just about any audio application will do this), then import it into your editing environment. I'd recommend keeping it as a WAV or AIFF, which are uncompressed formats. This will be less for the computer to decode while playing back and maintain a higher quality. Don't forget... MP3 is about a 10:1 compression, which means 90% of the information that makes up the audio has been thrown out. And encoding again means that you're compressing compressed audio, which can make is sound even worse.

A little side story... On the analog side, I once edited a wedding where the audio from the pastor was supplied to me via audio cassette. This involved adding a couple of frames of room tone every few seconds to keep sync. Friggin' ugh!

Peace.
Chris