• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Sync problem during playback from timeline

  Posted by Dave Labrecque on December 8, 2006 at 2:08 am

  Hi. New to the forum. Please bear with me…

  The audio/video sync is a few frames off as seen in the timeline monitor. Is this adjustable? Any thoughts on clearing it up?

  Sync is fine as seen in other players and programs.

  Thanks!

  Dave Labrecque
  Tucson, Arizona

  P4 3 Ghz (HT disabled)
  2 GB RAM
  120 MB SATA HD
  XP Pro SP2

  Dave Labrecque replied 19 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Aanarav Sareen

  December 8, 2006 at 5:21 am

  Hi Dave,

  1. Project settings?
  2. Where did you acquire your footage from?

  Aanarav Sareen
  premiere@asvideoproductions.com
  https://www.asvideoproductions.com/techtalk
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  Mike Velte

  December 8, 2006 at 1:01 pm

  Is it out of sync by the same amount at the beginning and at the end you may be ok, you can select (alt click) the audio only and nudge (alt+, or.) it a few frames.
  If the audio drifts further and further out (dropped frames or Mpeg sources) you may not be ok.
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  Dave Labrecque

  December 8, 2006 at 5:07 pm

  Hi Aanarav,

  Thanks for your response.

  Not sure what you’re asking about project settings. Which settings are you interested in? I’m happy to report back.

  The project is a “demo reel” of various things I’ve done over the years, so there’s a mixed bag of codecs to deal with with the original files. For compatibility and to make the seek times more usable in Premiere, I converted the original video files into more Premiere-friendly formats. There are now a few different codecs in use, though they all seem to seek just fine (with cursor scrubbing). The most-noticeable sync issue is with a DV file that I rendered in Sound Forge. It’s a few frames out. It was rendered using the Matrox DV/DVCAM codec on my system, and I’m running this session in “Matrox mode”, so I don’t understand why there would be an issue.

  BTW, there’s no drift that I’m aware of; starting playback from anywhere on the timeline shows the same sync disparity. However, an MPEG-2 rendered from the timeline is synced fine, so it’s apparently purely a play-from-the-timeline-in-Premiere issue.

  Hmmm… I just remembered that I’ve never done the capture sync test. Would that impact timeline playback sync?

  Thanks for your help!

  Dave Labrecque
  Tucson, Arizona

  P4 3 Ghz (HT disabled)
  2 GB RAM
  120 MB SATA HD for audio/video
  XP Pro SP2
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  Dave Labrecque

  December 8, 2006 at 5:16 pm

  Thanks, but that would actually confuse things worse. The timeline playback is out of sync, but the renders I make from the timeline are fine. So, if I sync it up as seen/heard from timeline playback, it would actually be out of sync in real life. I need to do something to bring the timeline playback sync “calibration” back into “sync” with real life. :^)

  Dave Labrecque
  Tucson, Arizona

  P4 3 Ghz (HT disabled)
  2 GB RAM
  120 MB SATA HD for audio/video
  XP Pro SP2

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