Video sync drifts in an out

[Thwiipp2000]

Hello I was wondering if someone can help me. I have some footage from some old VHS tapes i captured. I'm about to edit a bit in Premiere, but i noticed that the audio is in sync in some areas, but not others, is there anything i can do to fix this? Thanks in advance.

[redwudz]

No simple way that I am aware of. The most common method would be to chop the video up and correct the sync error for each part. I'm assuming the tape itself has the same problem and it's not something that comes from your capture process. Dropping video frames during capture can cause A/V sync problems.

How are you capturing the VHS tape? Methods and hardware?

And welcome to our forums.

[jman98]

Also, what is the audio format of your capture? VBR MP3 is well known to be problematic. AAC can use variable frame rate which can also cause synch issues, although usually it's OK. If Premiere is actually converting the audio from one of the formats I mentioned, it might be doing it in a less than ideal way.

[Thwiipp2000]

Thanks for the replies. I captured the VHS using my Hauppauge 950Q USB tuner using Golden Video. Its an AVI, see attached image. Im actually not new to the forums, I had to make a new account because i didn't remember my password and it was attached to an old email address i no longer have access to.

[Thwiipp2000]

Can anyone help me further? I'd really hate to recapture all this video. It was such a pain to do the first time with it constantly stopping. Thanks