Audio drift

Tim-Boone wrote on 7/28/2021, 3:14 PM

Hi, I'm working with Movie Studio 17.0 Platinum. I've been having issues with audio drift on a project I've been working on. I used a DSLR camera for the 'filming', and I've recorded audio separately using a boom mic, and every time I play back the audio, it eventually goes out of sync, which causes problems on multiple levels, and at this point, I have no idea how to even finish this project with the audio playback out of sync like this. Many takes I'm doing multiple takes without stopping recording, and I have to split up these sections of audio, but when the audio is out of sync, obviously, it's very easy to mess everything up, it's such a nightmare. Btw, I'm new to editing and don't know much about computers. I know my system is Windows 8.1, and that the program would run better if I had Windows 10, and I think I had set it to be compatible with Windows 10 in the past, but for the life of me, I can't find where I was able to do that so I can't re-adjust it back to 8.1, but even then, I'm not sure if I were to readjust it and switch it back to compatibility to Windows 8.1, will I lose my current project data, which is completely out of the question, this is a somewhat lengthy 'short' film, and I've been working on the editing alone for at least six months, so I am definitely not going back to square one and starting over the edit. Anyway, can anyone help me out at all? Thank you very much in advance.

Comments

Former user wrote on 7/28/2021, 4:53 PM

If you are using a separate device to record audio from your camera, this will happen. If you are recording the audio on the camera, then that is a different issue. Are you using a separate audio recording device?

Tim-Boone wrote on 7/28/2021, 5:08 PM

Yes, I am using a separate audio recording device. I'm using a boom mic.

NOVAdash wrote on 7/28/2021, 5:09 PM

I'm not sure if you're into hackery, but when you have the start/stop points for both the audio and video figured out, you can CTRL+Drag the edge of your audio so that its stop point matches match the length of your video. If they're grouped together, ungroup the audio from the video first. There might be a "professional" way of syncing the two, but that's how I'd do it.

Former user wrote on 7/28/2021, 5:58 PM

When using a separate recorder for audio there are a few suggestions that might minimize sync drift.

1: Record WAV format

2. 48k sample rate

3. 16 bit

If you record as MP3, your odds of audio sync lessen. Unless you have devices that utilize a function called Gen-lock, you are at the mercy of the quality of the video and audio recording devices. Some stay in sync better than others. NOVAdash's suggestion can work, otherwise, you have to go and trim when possible to bring audio back into sync for short periods of time.