audio sync problem – it can’t be this hard

[Brett Nelson]

Mike,
Good suggestion, but I think I only dropped 1 frame on one of three tapes and that was only a 10 minute tape. These are all good ideas. Do Ron and Kathlyn give out a Cow mug or something if the wiser minds of the forum don’t prevail?

This problem is an example of the curse of software-based NLEs. They’re great because you can run them on almost anything, and they’re terrible for the same reason…because there may be a couple dozen possible causes of the problem.

Thanks for the input!

Brett

[Willie Toth]

Brett,

If you have Audition you can use it to sync things back up and then import as a new clip … I would try it on a small portion of the original … WILLIE

[Brett Nelson]

Willie,
That’s a good suggestion. However, I’m not sure exactly where the audio starts to go out of sync, and whether it’s exactly proportional from start to finish. Also, it’s 4 hours of material, which would be a major hassle to manually sync.

I ended up doing the edit in Vegas. I used the clips that I captured in PPro, brought them into Vegas and they are perfectly in sync. Strange. I haven’t tried the PPro 2.0 demo to see if that fixes it. I’d still like to know why I had this problem with these clips when I didn’t with other hour long clips I’m cutting in PPro.

Thanks again for all the feedback!

Brett