Audio is High Pitched, Sped Up, and Skipping

I have 3 Mini-DV I recorded one after another. They are from a Sony camcorder and are all imported in AVI format.
All 3 of the tapes play just fine in windows media player or any other player.
However, the first, when imported in to PRE7 for editing is messed up. The audio is high pitched, sped up, and sort of skips in a double kind of way if that makes any sense.
The other 2 tapes imported just fine for editing. Is there a way to make sure the settings are all meshing up with this one tape? I dont think I changed any settings on the camera between tapes but maybe I did something with the audio.
Anyways, any help is appreciated. I do not have the tapes any more, just the AVI files (which as I said play fine outside of PRE7).
TIA
Steve

Sometimes, the header data can become corrupted in an AV file, or can be either incorrectly, or incompletely written.
Though the manifestation of symptoms is different, I have an issue with maybe 1:50 converted DV-AVI's. I can feed any of my conversion programs segmented files from a client's camera. All recorded at the same time, on the same camera. Only difference will be the exact time of recording. Every now and then, one of these files will Import into PrPro with the wrong Duration, say coming in as 00;03;45;00, when it should be 00;45;00;00. The rest in the batch will be perfectl. I've found that if I Import the "faulty" file into PE, it will play fine and with the correct Duration. Though already in DV-AVI Type II format w/ 48KHz 16-bit Audio, I just Export with the same exact settings and this fixes the Duration issue. G-Spot sees each file exactly the same, and with proper Duration. They have the exact same size - one just shows up with the wrong Duration in PrPro. When this happens, the Duration is nearly always around 03 min, though not the exact Duration each time. Something happens in the hearder and PrPro does not like it. PE has none of those issues.
In my case, I am not doing the capture, so I do not have the leisure of redoing it. This has also happened with several clients' files, from different (usually HDD) cameras, and are most often all MPEG. In your case, you have corrected the problems, but when you have a moment, you might re-Capture that one tape again in PE, just to see if it comes in fine.
Good luck,
Hunt

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Just click the download button at the top right.
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