There is an audio offset in the settings audio section ibelievethat effects the render
Basil Chupin <[email protected]> wrote: >On 14/11/12 06:53, Einar Rünkaru wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Basil Chupin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The video/audio is actually 1.4 seconds out and for which I have >>> adjusted the Preferences but this setting doesn't seem to "stick" when the >>> project is being rendered into a *.mov file. >>> >> The setting in preferences affects only playback in cinelerra. Use >> nudge if there is syncronization error in rendered file. > >Thanks for this, Einar, and this point now has me most puzzled for a >number of reasons - the first being is that I produced 4 parts of the >series and they all look excellent when played back with, say, VLC; it >is the 5th part which is causing me hassles. > >The real hassle I have with this is that I looked at the manual again >and what you say is correct which then leads one to ask the question: of >what use is the Audio Offset when the it is not taken into account when >the file is rendered? Its only use appears to be to make you view a file >in Cinelerra *only* so that its video and audio are in sync. But this >only leads to the wrong outcome in the rendered file. > >OK, there is the facility to *nudge* the audio to sync with the video. >But any nudging starts off on the wrong foot because the Audio Offset is >operating and so while you think that the video and audio are in sync on >the timeline the final render will be out of sync because the Audio >Offset is ignored. > >If my understanding of things is as I just mentioned then the use of the >Audio Offset is a waste of time and one should simply edit a file with >Audio Offset = 0.000 and only use the Nudge facility to synchronise >video/audio. > >Am I misunderstanding things? > >I have looked at many tutorials on YouTube re Cinlelerra and I cannot >see any of them covering this matter. (And the manual is more confusing >than helpful in many instances - it seems that it was thrown together >just for the sake of producing a manual to be read by someone who >already knows all about Cinlelerra.) > >BC > >-- >Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.9.3 & kernel 3.6.6-1 on a system with- >AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor >16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM >Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU >
