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Videosync-problem in Premiere Pro!
I’m faced with a very irritating problem in Premiere Pro which I’m going to try to explain.
Early in February my old computer died, so I had to buy a new one. I had a few projects unfinished, so I imported them to the new machine.
I also captured some new material without problems (DV from a Panasonic GS400 via Firewire).But when editing on my new machine the video constantly goes out of sync (I use Premiere Pro CS4). It’s like the video is too slow when starting the timeline sequence then jumps into sync every 2 or 3 seconds only to lose sync directly after that again. This, of course, makes editing and especially exporting back to DV-tape completely useless because it makes everything super annoying to watch.
So, thinking that it could be a software problem I installed the old and trusted Premiere Pro 1.5, which I have used on my old machine for years without any problems. But the problem was still there only in a different form. PP 1.5 goes out of sync (slow video again) for maybe 5 seconds after starting a sequence and then jumps into sync and then seems to stay synched which at least makes it possible to use the program, though it is a very irritating bug indeed.
When playing the captured DV-clips directly in players like VLC, WMP etc, they play perfectly without any audio/video sync problems at all.
Any ideas? I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me with a solution to this!
System specs:
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os: XP Pro SP3
cpu: Intel E8400
mb: Asus P5Q Pro
gfx: Asus 9600GT 512mb
sound: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
ram: 4GB DDR2//Stefan
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6 Replies
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Latest drivers audiocard installed?
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Yes, all drivers up to date
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What sound card are you using…what drivers?
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card: Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
latest driver: SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0008 (updating the original driver to this one made no difference though)full specs in my first post
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For testing purposes, does your motherboard have a sound card? Turn off your SB card in Device Manager. You may need to enable the on-board audio in the BIOS if it is not listed in Device Manager.
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Hi again.
Sorry for not responding earlier. I’ve been on a businesstrip.I turned off the SB-sound and tested with the MB-sound, but unfortunately no difference.
I’m a little curious why your first choice was to check the audiocard. Personally I would guess it’s a videocodec-conflict.
And again, I don’t understand why those DV-clips work fine outside Premiere in players like VLC etc.
//Stefan
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