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Audio lag
I’m having trouble when editing in the timeline getting the correct audio levels from the video. say I play a clip from the start in the timeline and the audio looks fine. then I’ll play it again from the start, or another location, and the levels peak or are different then what the meter had shown before. I’ll have to watch a clip and sequence over and over again to determine what the levels are, and its still not exact. It seems like avid is having trouble keep up with the levels. the only time I notice I get consistent audio levels is when I watch an exported sequence as a quicktime in Avid. We are running Avid Xpress Pro on a pc with External drives running USB Ports. I figured one reason might be that USB isn’t as fast as firewire, and might be lagging the clips. Any ideas?
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2 Replies
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Are you using a mojo? If not the machine might be lacking enough grunt to keep them synced together if you keep jumping back and forth.
Definitely worth trying a switch to firwire tho.
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Try transferring your audio files to an internal drive that isn’t your system drive. If you don’t have an internal drive besides your system drive, transfer your audio to your system drive and try to play it again. If it responds better, the bottle neck is the USB (I’m almost certain it is).
Move to firewire drives, or install a second (or more) internal drive for your media. You really shouldn’t have media on your system drive like I suggested, but it should be okay for a test.
Michae.
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