Application examples

Compensating a general picture/sound shift: It is rather often that the picture and sound are shifted mutually by an unchanging amount. In former times, the culprit was mostly the own technique, i.e., different recording modules for picture and sound which did not start exactly at the same time. But now with the introduction of the digital television a slight difference between picture and sound, in which the sound comes usually a bit too early, can be observed all too often. By means of AV Adjust this can be corrected with just few clicks.

Correcting of occasionally shifted sound: Picture/sound errors appear sometimes only in sections, e.g., up to the next reel change, or in musical films which partially retain the original foreign language sound. Using the sound cut function of AV Adjust, the affected segments can be easily realigned. If thereby arise cut gaps, these are "filled in" simply and inconspicuously by means of the two-track-technology.

Compensating timing errors: Even today sometimes picture and sound are recorded into the computer using different hardware components: the picture through a frame grabber, the sound, however, by the sound card. If the clock generators of both components are not in sync exactly, the sound is digitized either a little bit faster or slower than the picture and "runs away". In AV Adjust two markers are enough to correct this problem in a few minutes.

Television standard conversions: In the USA motion pictures run in the television with 23.976 frames per second (fps), in Central Europe, however, with 25 fps. After all, this is a difference of more than 4 percent. If you want to convert a movie on a US video cassette as cleanly as possible into the European CCIR standard (known as "NTSC-to-PAL-conversion"), indeed, the most comprehensive work is unravelling the 60 interlaced TV image fields into 24 film pictures per second, but also the sound is to be accelerated by the mentioned 4,271%. Using just two markers you can do this in AV Adjust absolutely precisely.

Mixing of language versions: Since you can use two sound tracks in AV Adjust, they can be simply united to a combined sound version. If you have, for example, a foreign musical film in several language versions, you can create a new soundtrack in which the conversation scenes are dubbed while the songs remain in the original version. Using AV Adjust, you will normally reach this goal much faster than by usual video editing programs.

Recording of cine films on DVD: Old cine films which were dubbed at that time using a two-tape-method (i.e. by means of a simultaneously running tape recorder) can often be played no longer so that the tone runs precisely in sync. Also service companies which offer professional copying of cine films to VHS or DVD usually can do nothing with the individual tape coil. AV Adjust will help you to recombine your old film with its sound – with such a high precision which could hardly ever reach the old cine-film equipment.

Joining picture and sound from different origins: It's not seldom that older motion pictures on renewed releases are provided with a revised sound version. The picture on the new publication is much better, but the unfamiliar sound destroys the pleasure. Or a much wanted movie is released only abroad without the home dubbing. However, if you still own the familiar language version - either on VHS or even only on audio tape - you can combine these by means of AV Adjust with the picture lip-synchronously. By the way: An example to this was the reason to develop AV Adjust. In the story of AV Adjust you can learn more about that.