Unsynced after transcoding...

I couldn't find help after a forum search, so I thought I'd ask here...
When I use the Media Encoder in CS3, I find that when I convert my footage -- Quicktime Video/wav 24-bit audio -- into MPEG2 video/MPEG 16-bit audio, the audio is unsynced. Any suggestions?
If I encode it into separate mpeg video and pcm audio files, it seems that the audio is synced. Just not when I create a single, multiplexed mpeg file.

>Gather SONIC DVD authoring does not have this problem
Er, Encore
i is
a Sonic authoring application at the core - the GUI is all Adobe, but the Authorcore is Sonic Solutions.
To try & deal with the problems though. When you say
> I have the NTSC encoded as NTSC / m2v via Canopus PC3 from the PAL AVI, and add the wav from the time line separately
are you inferring that the NTSC timeline has been created from a PAL AVI file? Not a good idea really. It's much better to run a standards conversion process on the PAL AVI first, then encode that to MPEG-2 at the same time as the Audio file, preferably to an LPCM 16/48 WAV file - not an MPEG Audio file as this is not a mandatory form, and a title with just MPEG audio is not spec compliant. Can you try that please, just to see what happens?
@ lionel.
>Could you tell me how to encode the trailers in quicktime streaming form using the Media Encoder?
Certainly - CS3 or CS4?

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