I downloaded a movie the other day called Bandoleros. It's an American made Spanish movie. Haven't seen it yet, but the audio was out of sync by a few hundred miliseconds. A few hundred miliseconds is enough of a difference to make the viewer notice it and spoils the movie. Most pirated movies are released in XviD format. I've tried to edit Xvid video previously using Sony Vegas but for some reason Vegas doesn't recognize XviD format video. The last version I tried it on was version 6 of Vegas. Now the latest version is version 8, and and I've got a new laptop with some serious power in it, so I decided to give it another try.
After installing it, to my dismay Vegas still doesn't support XviD editing. So googled around for some solutions to this problem. I encountered 2 YouTube videos that have 2 different solutions to this problem. The first one is here:
I tried the method showed in first one, but it didn't work for me. In some of the comments for the YouTube video, it is said the the trick only works on XP. My laptop runs Vista so that may be the reason it didn't work.
So on to the second video:
This trick did it for me. This method tricked Vegas into seeing the XviD video as a DivX video. I managed to fix the audio sync problem. But since I re-encoded the XviD to XviD again, there is a slight deterioration in video quality, but barely noticeable. I basically used the same video setting as the original file.
I have decided to share this fixed version of the movie with the world. So in a way, I am now a true pirate. It's still in the process of being uploaded. It's quite slow. As of right now, I still have about 8 hours to go before the upload is completed. I'll post and spread the links when it's done.
After installing it, to my dismay Vegas still doesn't support XviD editing. So googled around for some solutions to this problem. I encountered 2 YouTube videos that have 2 different solutions to this problem. The first one is here:
I tried the method showed in first one, but it didn't work for me. In some of the comments for the YouTube video, it is said the the trick only works on XP. My laptop runs Vista so that may be the reason it didn't work.
So on to the second video:
This trick did it for me. This method tricked Vegas into seeing the XviD video as a DivX video. I managed to fix the audio sync problem. But since I re-encoded the XviD to XviD again, there is a slight deterioration in video quality, but barely noticeable. I basically used the same video setting as the original file.
I have decided to share this fixed version of the movie with the world. So in a way, I am now a true pirate. It's still in the process of being uploaded. It's quite slow. As of right now, I still have about 8 hours to go before the upload is completed. I'll post and spread the links when it's done.
7 comments:
Thanks, #2 worked for me too.
just install the freakin XviD codec and it will open XviD videos fine... mine does, and i dont have to trick vegas or anything
You should be using the right tools for the job. Using Vegas for this is not only overkill but stupid. You should be using something like avidemux to split the file into audio and video streams, then you can shift the audio however much is necessary.
Haha! Yeah, the second works... if you want a workaround. But honestly, the easiest way to do it is to just download and install the xvid codec.
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html
I haven seen this movie too, i think it could be very good!!!
Great tutorial!
Excelent Scott Sheppard
Work Perfect in vegas 9.0
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html
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