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  • 23.98 audio goes out of sync

    Posted by Jeremy Holsnick on August 12, 2010 at 8:36 am

    Oh hi, I need your help. I’m working on a 90min video project shot on a Canon 7D at 23.98 with 48000 audio recorded externally and manually synced. The sequence is at 23.98/48000 and everything plays fine in FCP. When the video and audio are exported, everything plays fine and in sync. However, when I exported the audio to work on it and brought it back into FCP the audio started to drift ahead of the image. It’s about 5 seconds too fast after 90 minutes. I slowed the audio down to 99.9% and that got it to match up at the head and tail, but frame/audio accuracy was lost, especially around the middle.

    Any help is greatly appreciated and would prevent my hair from graying.

    P.S. Timecode in FCP and my DAW match. There is no mixing of frame rates or sample rates in the project. Everything is at 23.98/48000

    Jeremy Holsnick replied 16 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Bouke Vahl

    August 12, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    Wild guess:
    Is your sound BWF?
    If so, try saving from QT pro as WAVE.
    (This will strip the BWF info that can fool FCP)

    Or, switch to NDF BWF import, and RESTART FCP.
    Then import the sound again.

    hth

    Bouke

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  • Jeremy Holsnick

    August 12, 2010 at 10:38 pm

    Exported AIFF from FCP. Brought into Adobe Audition to some some spectral cleaning. Brought back to FCP. Out of sync.

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