Video Authoring Help needed

[boombox]

I guess this one goes out to the Breakfast video crew!

I spent most of last week travelling round the UK with Jefferson Starship (NO - not the Mickey Thomas poodle rock responsible for We Built This City, but the real one with Paul Kantner, Marty Balin and David Freiberg) and had one hell of a time - best week off I\'ve ever taken.

Anyway, I also videoed all the shows and slightly distorted sound notwithstanding (am getting numerous AUD and some SBD sources to fix this), some of the shows are pretty good. However, on two occasions, due to poor Sony camera design,  ie zoom button and function selector are next to each other and operate in the same plane, and operator error (mine once and a friend\'s the other), during two of them, the camera accidentally got turned off. This is all the more galling as I bought a Hard-drive camera so have no tape flips.

My question is, how can I sync the pictures up with an improved sound source when there are gaps in the visuals? I know I have seen an effect where a small slideshow can be inserted during the gap, or even just one still, but I don\'t know what software will do it. Ideally I need the name of the software and somewhere where it will tell me how to do it. As for the software, if someone knows an (illicit) source or could offer an older version which may now be free/shareware, I would be grateful as I can\'t afford to buy anything fancy at the moment (camera was $1100).

Thanks in advance, guys.

[SlimPickens]

The AV geeks on this board will probably disagree, but Microsoft MovieMaker is simple to use.  It\'s so easy to combine video, audio and stills... even a tech weakling like myself can handle it.

WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROOOOOCCCKKKKK AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDD RRRRROOOOOOLLLLL!!!

[boombox]

The AV geeks on this board will probably disagree, but Microsoft MovieMaker is simple to use.  It\'s so easy to combine video, audio and stills... even a tech weakling like myself can handle it.

WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROOOOOCCCKKKKK AAAAAANNNNNNDDDDD RRRRROOOOOOLLLLL!!!

Thanks for the idea, but doesn\'t MS Movie Maker only make lossy wmv files?

[ChrisF]

Thanks for the idea, but doesn\'t MS Movie Maker only make lossy wmv files?

it SHOULD also do uncompressed AVI, but im not sure. i dont think you can sync a separate audio source to video in movie maker though. i use vegas video for all my editing. you can match the the peaks of the waveforms from the camcorder audio to the separate audio source

how can I sync the pictures up with an improved sound source when there are gaps in the visuals?
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just sync each section separately. where there is no video it will just be a black screen


recorded audio/video from 2 separate sources will never sync up perfectly because no 2 devices will record at the exact same speed, so if you sync at the beginning of the recording the 2 sources will not match up at the end. i always sync in the middle, so the beginning will be slightly off and the end will be slightly off, but it will be such a small amount that the human eye cannot pick it up. its not going to be that big of a deal because there are only 30 frames per second in standard definition video anyway and its very easy to get it synced within 1/30 of a second, so theres no need to be any more precise than that. ill usually try to get it even better than that because i am super anal when it comes to breakfast video, but its not really necessary.

[Gfunk]

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