FlipHD and inconsistent Audio
by Ron Berntson
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Jul 29, 2009 at 2:50:01 pm
There seem to have been a number of other posts on the Flip HD camera, but nothing exactly like my problem.
We were going on vacation in Europe and I wanted a camera that, if pick-pocked, I wouldn't get all bent out of shape at its loss. The good things about the Flip HD - okay picture, very handy - can whip it out and get a shot within 3 seconds, with no real zoom, forced me to think about framing in a way I've never had to before, and I got creative about how to keep the thing stable in my 55 year old hands. Disadvantages - crappy audio, lots of shakiness, an hour of battery was sometimes not enough.
I'm editing this on CS4 with Vista 64 - Core 2 Quad. I have installed and used the Flip software and made sure Quicktime is up-to-date.
And now the big problem. I have around 18 gb of video sorted into folders. For some folders, when I import the files into Premiere, sound and picture is just right. The video files from other folders does not import the audio - when you look at the wave form, it simply isn't there. This seems to go on a folder basis. The functioning video works just fine. The dysfunctional video plays audio in both Bridge and with Quicktime. All files will not play in Media Player. Soundbooth exhibits the same hit and miss behavior as Premiere.
My objective is to edit the source video clips in their original form for output to Wide Screen DVD, iPod and perhaps some form of hi-dev other than Bluray. If I have to convert, then okay, but I really like to avoid compression until final export.
Re: FlipHD and inconsistent Audio by Ron Berntson on Jul 29, 2009 at 5:00:26 pm
I can do the Quicktime Pro thing, but it would still be nice to account for the inconsistency. Why would Premiere Pro be fine with some files and not fine with other files - even though they are the exact same file time. This also seems to happen on a folder by folder basis. Some folders of .mp4 work and others don't.
As totally unsupported, ignorant speculation, I wounder if it has something to do with how the audio is syncing up to the video frames.
