[Blake Wiers]

You would think Apple would have it bulletproof, right? Record on the iSight, edit in FCP, no problem….but….

Reading around on Apple’s support sight, the best info I found is that the iSight camera/QT Pro does all kind of trickery to record a decent image, like changing shutter speeds, frame rates, etc, during the recording. And as a result, sometimes the audio and video sync suffers.

That said, I actually found that while the playback of the QT movie (I recorded “native” because when I recorded in h.264, the video was too choppy, like a series of semi-stills) in my FCP viewer window went out of sync over the course of a clip, once I actually chopped up the clip into a timeline (I’m only using short bits) the sync wasn’t as bad.

The best bit of advice I’ve read is to record in “native” in a brightly-lit setting, which makes it easier on the computer. That said, it is really surprising that with the popularity of vlogging that Apple is putting out disfunctional software/hardware!

[Blake Wiers]

Hey Fellas—To add: I’m having the same problem…but…I’m already using the “raw/device native” setting in QT Pro to capture off the iSight cam…and when I bring it into FCP 6.04, the video loses sync.

It feels as if FCP might be turning the 30fps QT video into 29.97, because the audio is taking longer to play than the video, but the clip’s overall length is the same.

Any solutions or workarounds or do-it-this-way-you-numbskulls would be most helpful! The only thing I can think of is going in clip by clip and either speeding up the audio or slowing down the video…