Tutorial 1: Constant offset between picture and sound

1. Introduction

Case examples

The fact that picture and sound are shifted mutually by a constant amount is found in practice rather often. And there are countlessly many reasons for it. Perhaps, the picture and sound recording were begun not exactly at the same time, or during the treatment of a MPEG stream using incomplete programs the time code contained in the stream got lost. Even on the modern digital television - in contrast to Grandpas tough analogous technique - a continual misalignment between picture and sound of a few frames can be noticed not seldom. Usually here the sound comes slightly too early respectively, more appropriately describing the cause, the picture comes too late, because the MPEG coding of the picture is much more expensive than the sound coding, and the video compression chip cannot make its work timely.

The correction of such a constant picture/sound disalignment will be our entrance project into the work with AV Adjust.

Tutorial files

For this project you will need the following files (from the package Tutorial 01 or by these links):

   Name   Description   Size   Download 
   Tutorial 01 Video the sample video 1616 KB nagel.avi
   Tutorial 01 Sound 1 the sound track to be adapted 107 KB step01.wav