YouTube video/sound out of synch

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YouTube video/sound out of synch

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I'm a learner, and posting some of my "progress" videos for fun and a few friends. While the wmv files play in synch from the folder they're saved in, once I upload them to YouTube, the video gets a couple of seconds ahead of the sound. Anyone know what that's about?
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youtube translates them into a differently formated file

not so well
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Check with Michael Eskin about this. He looked into the sync issues in some detail when he was uploading tutorials.
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Re: YouTube video/sound out of synch

Post by eskin »

I'd suggest verifying the sync issue on several other computers. Almost always these days, this is a problem on the playback side, not with the file.

That being said, I haven't tried uploading files to YouTube in .wmv format. I either upload MPEG-2 .mpg files or convert to h.264 .mp4 files. If the editor you have has either of these options, give it a try, or you can use a free video converter like "Super" to transcode the video before uploading to YouTube.
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