Audio playing out of sync?

[Bill Dewald]

Try a mixdown render (ctrl-apple-r).

Try quitting FCP, deleting your Audio Renders for the project, and relaunching.

[Sam White]

Thanks Bill,
I’ll give that a go!

[Sam White]

No Luck. Its a nightmare the play head is always ahead of the actual sound of the audio but the play head is correct in relation to the video. There doesn’t seem to be any audio render files in the project audio render files folder and audio mixdown doesn’t help.
cheers anyway for your help
sam

[Pat Defilippo]

Hi Sam,

If your sync audio problem appears to be on ALL clips and it appears to be off by just a few frames, try going to Final Cut Pro->System Settings->Playback Controls and taking a look at “Frame Offset”.

My first guess is that it is on 0 right now on your system. On mine, using an AJA IoLA, I have it on 4 and audio appears pretty well globally synced to video. I seem to recall something like 7 being a popular starting number, and then you can adjust up or down from that. The frame offset varies from suite to suite and it depends on how your suite is wired.

I hope this does the trick for you,
-Pat

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[Sam White]

Thanks for reply, i adjusted that but it made it worse then I changed the audio sample rate of the sequence to 44.100 and it fixed it. Thanks for your help though!
much appreciated
sam