Premiere, sound clip out of place

[oriecat]

Hello, I am helping my boyfriend make a movie. He is impatient with computers, so I am taking over as technical advisor and he is going to stick with the basic editing and stuff. (For example, he made a vcd the other day of his test footage, then tried to play it with Windows Media Player and flipped out when he couldn't find the avi file (or mpeg, whatever he was looking for) and threw it across the room and screamed about how computers never work right for him. So I just found on this site about how to find the dat file in the mpegav (I think it was) folder and I played it for him! Men! )

So here's the first question that we haven't been able to find any help for. He is using Premiere 6.0. On his test footage, there are two audio clips that get out of sync when he exports the timeline. It doesn't matter what format or codec he uses to export, it is always the same two clips (out of many). So it's not all of the sound, but those two and we can't figure out why. It plays just fine in Premiere and in the preview, it is just upon exporting. He has tried replacing the clip with another version of it, but it doesn't seem to matter. There was a small space between that clip and the one before it, so he tried to fill the space with silence in case that was throwing it off somehow, but it didn't help. It's weird!! Any thoughts?

He has Premiere 6.0, a Celeron 905 MHz, 256 MB Ram, Win XP and a 19.1 GB harddrive. He has a WinTV card.

Thanks!!

[DigitalGreg]

I haven't been using premiere much but I remember these kinds of problems. It seems that sometimes the software is just unforgiving of certain problems. I can make some suggestions:

You might need to re-render the replacement clip. The old clip might still be in the buffer or whatever. Kind of like when a web page loads from the cache and you have to refresh it.

You can always unlock the video and audio (right click while highlighing the clip and you should see unlock), then move the audio or video clip left or right until they appear to be in sync again. And yes, premiere will be easier to work with if you put in a little filler audio track to fill in a hole in the audio.

Likewise you could always record fresh audio to replace the old audio, of course this is the most tedious option.

www.adobe.com has a pretty good forum for searching and asking your question.