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  Premiere Pro CS3 imported .mpg audio gets out of sync with video

  Posted by William Karchner on July 29, 2011 at 8:32 pm

  I hope someone can help me! I’ve been using PremPro CS3 for about 4 yrs now and have NEVER had this problem. I import a .mpg video file into PP and whether I play it back in the project panel or timeline the audio eventually gets out of sync with the video. The clip is ~27 min long. The audio is in sync with the video at beginning of clip but as the clip plays on the audio becomes increasingly out of sync. I’ve played the clip in Windows Media Player and everything is in sync beginning to end. What can be causing this problem in Premiere Pro??

  I’m running CS3 under WindowsXP SP3-Build 2600

  I have completed scores and scores of projects in PremierePro and NEVER had such a problem.

  Thank you in advance for ANY help with this matter!

  Chris Buttacoli replied 14 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  July 29, 2011 at 9:37 pm

  As mpeg is a compressed file format the changes of getting out of sync with large file is not uncommen.
  Chopping it up into subclips might do the trick.

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  Chris Buttacoli

  July 30, 2011 at 4:55 pm

  Have you had any “red-frame” insertions in the clip?
  I have noticed many times MPEG footage going out of sync in CS3 after dropped frames were detected. But in media player, all plays fine. CS4 fixed this issue.

  One thing I’ve done in the past is extract the audio from the MPEG in Audition, save it out as a .wav, and then create a new sequence in your project with the original video and this new audio lined up. Then I opened the new sequence in the source monitor and edited with it normally.

  Most of the times this worked! I think it’s a codec issue.

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