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Windows Movie Maker 5.1

Feb 19, 2006 10:15AM PST

Just tried saving 12 short videos to CD using Nero 6. Videos were made using Windows Movie Maker 5.1 and incorporated stills, video, commentary audio, music audio and transitions, some all in one video.

Almost half of them look great on the CD but the others have the dialogue audio and the stills out of sync. The default play time for stills is 5 sec. but some were lengthened to stay put longer when the audio commentary applied to them exceeded 5 secs. Even though I tested all videos before burning many of the stills seem to have gone back to the 5 sec. default, putting everything following them out of sync. All video files were saved in wmv. format before burning and all seemed OK before the burn. Is it the burner? Or is something screwy with the wmv. files? Or what?

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It's a freebie. Try something like...
Feb 19, 2006 10:23AM PST

Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, Apple's Final Cut, Ulead or Photodex products. Some have demos so you try before buy.

Bob

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It's The Burner
Feb 27, 2006 12:54AM PST

Just thought I'd post back to say, it's the Nero EXpress 5.5 burner that is the problem. Not only did it put the movies out of sync in VCD and SVCD but it took one hour and twenty minutes and two and a half hours respectively to burn. When burned using Audio Cleaning Lab 3's burner all the narration and clips are in sync, it only took about ten minutes to burn at 4x and, surprisingly, the images were much, much better on the computer. Unfortunately the CD burned with ACL3 cannot be played on the DVD. There's always something, isn't there? Have contacted Nero.

Saving $800 to +$1,000 by not buying Adobe Premiere but may have to spring for a new burner, gee, what's that, maybe $80.00?