[Dan Vickson]

How do I go about doing any of that? When I record from the capture card I don’t have any options about locking the frame rate, and I can’t control whether or not the FPS of what I’m capturing dips. I don’t know how to transcode either.

On top of this, I STILL can’t figure out why the file plays with perfect sync in media players, but the moment it’s imported into Premiere it becomes this big hassle.

[Dan Vickson]

Yes, it still happens when I create a sequence from a clip.

The inconsistency is really bugging me. Sometimes everything is perfectly fine, but other times this issue occurs. I can’t figure out what might be going wrong to cause the disparity, and I especially don’t understand why the effected clips play back fine in multiple media players.

I also tried stretching a transparent video clip over it. No luck there.

The dropped frame indicator is green the whole way through the video. I did suspect that I had some corrupted/dropped frames because of the occasional few frames of distortion as pictured in the screenshots in the OP, but I’m not so sure anymore. I would still question why the sync is fine when the file is played in WMP/VLC, but at least narrowing the problem down to dropped frames would be something.

Assuming that is the issue, my next step would be figuring out why frames are being dropped or distorted. My HDMI cables appear to be fine as I never see anything on the TV I record on. My laptop isn’t the issue because it meets the capture card’s requirements and I’ve never seen the CPU useage spike above 70% while recording. I also set the recording software’s priority to high. The HDD is in good shape. That leaves the USB cable that goes from the capture card to the laptop, the capture card itself, or my Wii U. I don’t think it’s the cable or the capture card because I never seem to have an issue when capturing footage from my 360, and I haven’t had any issues recording from a PS3 since I replaced my old defective one. I’ve observed this problem specifically when capturing from the Wii U. I don’t understand why this only manifests in the captured footage, but not the TV if the console is faulty in some way.

[Dan Vickson]

If I export it to upload it to Youtube it will export with the audio drift, and the smallest file I have that exhibits the problem is 2gb.