[Jim Ramus]

Before I had to chance to read some of this Friday, I ended up just comparing time length of video to length of audio (4 minutes) and changing audio length in Audacity with Tempo effect which changes speed but not pitch. Very likely not the best method as it took some re-adjusting back and forth in Audacity but got a perfect sync eventually.

Rafael Amador said:
“I wanted to know if you where in NTSC land, and you where editing on a sequence that has a different time-base than the default sequence, because there is a well know bug that may puts audio out of sink in that case.”

Yes, I use NTSC which is what it needs to be in to view on US DVD players.

Thanks to all for all the tips. It is now done and on dvd. This project was too time consuming but a learning experience I guess.

Jim

[Jim Ramus]

by Rafael Amador on Jan 25, 2013 at 2:58:09 am
“That is the problem with the out of sync audio and the long processing time.
The format is not supported in FC.”

Well actually, I’ve done about 100 AVCHD videos in FCP 6 using Log and Transfer for about 6 months now with no problem at all with audio drifting out of sync or anything for that matter. This was first time I had a problem and maybe last time for a long time since this was an unusual situation.

I found out last night the video wasn’t done with the usual camera but by someone while in Germany, which also was likely explanation for first error of this kind when importing to DVD Studio, “PAL assets cannot be imported into NTSC projects”.

Jim

[Jim Ramus]

I ended up using Audacity to change tempo which doesn’t affect pitch and got it to match although took forever.

I am very new to this, about 9 months) with minimal training so a lot of video talk goes right over my head. As for “what kind of footage”, sorry, all I know is they are AVCHD files. Usually I don’t have a problem with this sync “drift”, last one worked fine with same type of files.

Thanks for your help.

Jim

[Jim Ramus]

Thank you for your help, that app worked really well. Unfortunately, that new aiff version does’nt stay in sync with video for some strange reason though.

Jim