Audio syncing problem...

[Huntr777]

This is a follow up to the last post I did about using an H264 file to edit it. I was having a problem with dropped frames when I did a dissolve or put up a graphic. The work around I found was to export it to Quicktime with no rendering. OK, problem solved...not quite! Now I notice that the audio is a bit off...at the beginning of what I am editing it's 26 frames off...later in the video it's 2.5 seconds off...so it keeps adding to it the further in it goes! And since I am editing a dance recital I really can't be off by much because people will notice.

I have tried every trick in the book I know, tried exporting to every file format I know, still having the same problem. Can anybody out there please enlighten me how to stop this audio sync issue?

T

[terryj]

if you go back to the original h264 file, the audio is correctly in sync, right?
if you go back to that file, and export it to DV Stream with the audio Locked
from Quicktime Pro, how does that DV Stream file then playback? Is audio
sync then enabled? if so, then import that DV Stream file into your NLE
and then add your dissolves...

[Huntr777]

Hey Terry, actually this became such a headache I ended up just syncing up the audio up manually. Wasn't all that bad once I got the rhythm of it down. I even went to my local Apple Store and showed a Final Cut Pro teacher what was happening, and she was stumped.

[terryj]

hmmm...glad you got it fixed Huntr.