Fix Audio Sync Drift in Your Videos Using Adobe Premiere & Audition

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Tutorial for fixing audio drift in videos when syncing audio recorded on an external recorder. E.g. If your audio goes out of sync by the end of your edit.
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@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I hope you all have a happy new year. 😃🙏 🎁🎤 Last chance for the Deity V-Mic D3 Pro Giveaway: goo.gl/YDXXDG (Ends Jan 2nd)

@MrJJSimonds 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Gerald... I used this fix to correct an issue I had with a 54 music show. Ran a 3-camera shoot thru a studio grade video switcher/mixer, that also got a messy two track ( in sync). I also recorded the session on a 12-track audio recorder. I found that my mixed down multi track ( and raw) ended up just shy of 2 sec short over that 54 min. So problem solved... but wtf is happening to make them not sync. I am recording the audio at 16bit/48Hz, which is the same standard the video system uses... so where is the timing difference coming in. One of the other people in this org was in broadcast for decades,, symphony recording etc... said he had never seen this issue in his entire career.... thanks for your introspection

@JpDubbed 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, sure, that works. But how about if you DO edit your video in time to audio by cutting, moving around etc, MAKE it in time, export it. Then when you upload to youtube it's out of sync on SOME devices and not all? I uploaded unlisted the other day and everything seems fine on my devices, but I checked a friends phone and the video-audio was out of sync..

@prestonurvina Жыл бұрын

When you find one of your go-to KZfaqrs has a 3 year old video that saves the day once again! Thanks for the years of assistance Gerald!

@EposVox 5 жыл бұрын

Couple Notes: Right click your timeline timecode/playhead area, Show Audio Time units - then you can align same as in Audition, and probably just use the Rate Stretch tool (R key?) to conform as needed, too. Save the Audition export steps. Right clicking your audio and video in the bins and hitting "Merge Clips" and then based on waveforms, append tracks, delete original audio -- with claps and no drift has never not worked for me. If you're getting audio drift just recording in Audition with nothing intensive going on on your PC, I definitely recommend digging into your frequency settings or something, that's really not normal at all other than when your CPU is under intense load causing your audio driver to stall out.

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

I really don't think that "Audio Time Units" works as well as Audition. It's still clunky and sticks to frames. Audition is buttery. The Rate Stretch Tool is a good stopgap, but it's definitely clumsier than the stretching in Audition. Audition allows more decimal places too. Merge Clips is effective with shorter clips, but it uses the standard sync method and that doesn't change rates for fixing drift. The reason why this happens has little to do with load in my case (because it happens on external recorders as well) and everything to do with relying on frame markers instead of using a properly synced time code. It's always out of sync by about .001%, which is the same as the difference between 30 and 29.97 or 24 and 23.976, etc. And in Premiere you can't choose the correct percentage of correction down to the exact decimal place like you can in Audition. I think everyone suffers from the drift if not using time codes, but it's possible they don't notice because we're only talking about a frame of drift every 10 minutes or so. Once you get into 1-2 hour recordings though, it becomes pretty noticeable in my opinion, but it's still only about 1/2 second out, and might go undetected.

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Edit: Audio Time Units + Rate Stretch Tool is a lot better than using neither of those things in Premiere. I don't mean to discount your tip completely. It is a significantly smoother vs not using it. I still like Audition better though. The tools and layout have audio in mind, so I find it faster. But good tip.

@MVARTZ 3 жыл бұрын

Well, that did the trick for me. My camera doesn't have an internal mic, I know right, so I had to sync the drift on two claps one in front and one in the end. Since I couldn't match the internal audio to the external audio I needed the video as a reference to properly sync the audio. Sorry, All I meant to say is, thanks for this tip ;)

@Harpsea Жыл бұрын

This did the trick, not 100% perfect but close enough to be unnoticeable.

@FathomMinistries Жыл бұрын

That works too... and even easier. Thank you!

@AdamDuffArt 5 жыл бұрын

You just saved me about 5 accumulative years of my life I WISH I knew this before some hellish editing sessions Thank you so much!!

@kaylonrushing4785 4 жыл бұрын

You just saved my life omg. I've been spending HOURS cutting and dragging manually to fix this. Didn't even think to try the stretch tool 🤦🏽

@toxictabasco 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great tips on the audio sync. This reminds me I need to get back in the studio to undo some music.

@damienstubbs6246 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this video! I've been agonising for months over whether my issues were in Traktor, my camera, or something I was doing wrong. Now syncing my dj mixes with video perfectly. I've adapted your technique to use with Resolve and Audacity. Just takes a little more work to stretch the audio. 👍👏

@CyrusHostetler 5 жыл бұрын

You can do this all in premiere. First, sync up your clips in the timeline the best you can, then right click anywhere in the time section of the timeline and choose "Show Audio Time Units" this will allow you to zoom in way closer and even see individual sine curves of the audio. From here you can further sync it as accurately as Adobe audition. Next I would cut the start of both clips where the claps start Then scroll to the end and cut the end of the audio on both clips at a known audio break. (If you have audio drift they should be different lengths) Then right click your video track and choose speed/duration. Copy the length of the video in minutes:frames and cancel out Choose your Audio clip that is trimmed, right click, select "speed/duration" and paste the length timecode that you copied from the video. Be sure to click maintain pitch checkbox as well. You should now have synced audio. Alternatively you can go to your toolbar at the top, click and hold the ripple edit tool and select "rate stretch" from the drop down. You can now stretch the audio clip to accurately sync to the video. Please note, you should take your timeline out of "Show Audio Time Units" after you are complete, otherwise cutting, zooming, and scrolling through your timeline will be much harder

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

This is a concisely written guide for Premiere. Thank for doing this. I use the rate stretch tool version of this, because I'm used to it and fast at it, but I'll give the speed/duration method a try to mix it up next video. And yeah, always re-disable audio time units or cutting is a mess. They often won't even line up.

@CyrusHostetler 5 жыл бұрын

@@geraldundone Keep up the awesome videos. I watch all of them and send most of them to my co-workers.

@Ahlex 2 жыл бұрын

I know that comment is really old but it has just helped me so much! Thank you for that!

@foreignBoyent Жыл бұрын

Thank you for years I needed this

@jordanshotit3967 11 ай бұрын

Best easy use premiere audio fix here. Thank you random internet guy

@promptandcircumstance3594 5 жыл бұрын

I have been struggling with this (wasting hours of time) for over two weeks. This video has literally saved the majority of my weekend. THANK YOU.

@RevivalMotoring 4 жыл бұрын

This video SAVED me! Can't Thank you enough for making this. Huge help! Subscribed and supporting from here on out!

@GHMEFilms 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome information that I wouldn't have thought of! Great video sir!

@digiteye 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This is a burning issue, now I finally know what to do. Happy new year! 😀

@michaeljones2972 4 жыл бұрын

Without a doubt, your tip has cut **hours** out of my workload each week! Absolutely incredible post tip. One the best Premiere tips ever

@thaticelandicguy 5 жыл бұрын

wonderful tips! thank you

@Foster44x 5 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial and very helpful as per usual👍

@menofbronze9166 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this. This is EXACTLY what I needed.

@AdamSmalley 4 жыл бұрын

You saved me about 3 hours of editing. Got it done in like 10 seconds. I love you!

@DonSaeKang 5 жыл бұрын

This is an awesome tip!! I can't wait to use this on my next project! Happy New Year!

@PointTV_org 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Gerald for sharing this trick, it works!

@TiddlyOggy 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your work, I have a teeny weeny gaming channel, but have recently decided to use it to really learn about editing (I don't have a camera), I've swapped from Camtasia to Vegas Pro and Davinci Resolve but even though you're an Adobe guy, your stuff is really helpful and inspiring so keep it coming

@DeathByGouda 6 ай бұрын

Life saver for my long recordings-thank you so much!

@FathomMinistries Жыл бұрын

Gerald, your presentation is excellent! Thank you!

@HamhamASMR 2 жыл бұрын

Super helpful. Thank you!

@KeltonOConnell 3 жыл бұрын

FYI This can be done in Premiere too using the rate stretch tool. Thanks for this, Gerald- super duper helpful!!

@caea98 5 жыл бұрын

I was done with my life, then i watched your channel on Camera Conspiracies video and now you undone my life. Thanks

@stevenjohnson5984 5 жыл бұрын

Great Video!! Thanks I really appreciate your tips and info.

@karananilm 2 жыл бұрын

Gerald! Thank you! This was so helpful!

@JamesPatterson97 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Gerald, Is there any explanation for why this happens? I find this happens often with professionally recorded audio done in ProTools and am worried that modifying the speed of the clip in audition might alter the pitch of the music. I am currently editing 20 minute live sessions and the audio end up being faster by about 5/6 frames by the end. Is it actually down to how to audio is processed and exported?

@FanDummies 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video!! This is what my life has been missing! My videos are usually long and the drift gets crazy! I can't wait to try this out!

@DrumHistoryPodcast Жыл бұрын

Very helpful video, thanks!

@7thheavenrugbypod233 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible video. This has bene foxing me for so long! Thank you

@AdamPrestNZ 5 жыл бұрын

You can do sub frame positioning of audio in premiere if you right-click the timecode ruler above the timeline and select show audio time units. Then you can adjust audio by individual samples instead of by frame. This way you can line up your claps perfectly between camera audio and external sound.

@Vernonchan 3 жыл бұрын

OMG this is so efficient! Thanks Gerald!

@dajael 5 жыл бұрын

Great topic and tutorial👍

@jeffreytong 5 жыл бұрын

Great work as usual!

@TheMoneyMetcon 4 жыл бұрын

Bro THANK YOU!!! You have NO IDEA how much time you just saved me!!! This is amazing.

@TheKAZS 4 жыл бұрын

You saved me so much time. Thank you VERY MUCH !

@themgamez 3 жыл бұрын

thank you man.I was looking for a solution to exactly this problem. Thanks to you I won't be dealing with 1 millisecond audio drifts

@pedalandypedal 2 жыл бұрын

If you have multiple tracks from something like a zoom p4 or p8, assuming you would just drag and slowdown all tracks the same amount after first syncing a single track?

@bluelounge8944 4 жыл бұрын

I recently just found your channel and ur on point with a lot of issues ive been tryin to fix. Thank you

@EMBEVIDEO 5 жыл бұрын

Another great video 👍🏻 All the best for 2019!

@mirandakruse4292 3 жыл бұрын

This saved me 6 hours of audio recording. Thank you so much!

@christiandacosta 5 жыл бұрын

This is why I love youtube. Just fixed my audio drift with your help. Thanks man!

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad to hear it. Thanks for saying so.

@TroyMeekhof 5 жыл бұрын

Dude you just saved my life. Holy smokes. I've been searching for ages for a solution to this. THANK YOU.

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad to hear it. Thanks, Troy!

@LAWXKITCHN 2 жыл бұрын

Dude This Helped Me Fr Thank You So Much I was Getting Hella Frustrated 😁

@Harley1Lovegrove Жыл бұрын

Very informative and useful. Thank you!

@anasmubaideen 5 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. Thank you

@Jacob_Roberts 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Gerald.

@grat2010 5 жыл бұрын

Haha! Perfect intro. Love your channel. I learn so much about things I didn't even know I should know. Thank you for such quality videos. Happy new year and best wishes for 2019!

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Happy new year to you too! 😃👍

@steakandlobster_ Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gerald, you saved us time ♥️

@mreopenspokemon1424 4 жыл бұрын

I use an hd webcam and a lapel mic plugged directly into the mic port of my laptop. My recording software records video from the cam and audio from the mic but I have noticed significant sync issues. So I don’t have audio from the cam to sync to using this method. What can I do?

@cococamper Жыл бұрын

Do you know how is this still happened? I record my ATEM out in Ninja V in ProRes LT, and my audio is in Tascam DR-40. Synced setting (48 Khz, only the bit depth is different, one is 16 bit, one is 24 bit). At the end of a 6 hours continuous event, both track have 10-15 frame differences. Do you think bit depth difference is a factor?

@Zakna 5 жыл бұрын

awesome stuff! :) I don't do videos, but I gotta remember this if I ever do

@kiyanazarbar3319 5 жыл бұрын

Dude, your videos are incredible, and your "what is happening?" intro always cracks me up. This explanation of sync drift is concise but also incredibly intuitive. I've worked with Audition and music production and DJ software quite a bit so I'm used to these concepts, but your explanation of why you need to keep the original scratch audio track conveyed a difficult concept in a very small number of words. Always look forward to your videos! Now please do a comparison of HLG vs F-Log on the Fuji XT-3 and tell me which one to use and how to expose for it using the NINJA V, when I have a dynamic light source in the background :)

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm really glad to hear that. Really appreciate this comment. And thanks for the suggestion too. Cheers! 😃🙏

@flaminggmonkeyss Жыл бұрын

what if you don't have a 2nd audio track to see waveforms to sync to? i have the sync drift issue over a very long stream recording but only one audio track recording, no in cam audio or anything, its hard to tell where its going out of sync unless i listen and watch and its a very very long video. also if you don't have audition at atm, can you do it natively in premiere? or would something like audacity work as well?

@jqs.20 Жыл бұрын

thank you so much! this tutorial helped us fix an audio sync bug we had been working at for an hour in premiere - life-saver!!

@kian8382 5 жыл бұрын

So it's actually, actually those youtubers' fault when A/V go out of sync, I've been thinking for a while to upgrade my GPU just because of this. Thank you Gerald.

@mahramdesigner 4 жыл бұрын

hei Gerald, can you help me i have some probloem with video sony a7ii when i'm imported in premier pro there's no audio when i played in video player in windows the audio work just fine and also my nikon video in premier pro work just fine as well . idk if this question make sense

@SimonJamesCarter Жыл бұрын

You know when you watch a video and the person explains exactly what’s going wrong with your project and how to solve it?! That just happened, thank you so much 🤙

@cactusstudiossouth 10 ай бұрын

YES ! Am familiar with the Synchronize feature on Adobe locking up multi camera tracks through the, 'Mixdown' setting however am now trying to Synchronize a new 4 Cam Multi Camera Shoot to a Master Audio Track recorded previously but after I draw over the 4 independent tracks then right click on the group my Synchronize tab is GHOSTED! Can you offer me a Solution?

@valarmorghulis6955 3 жыл бұрын

wow thank you!! it solved my drifting audio issues Subbed! Keep creating great contents!

@CIAOBELLOTV 3 жыл бұрын

You saved hours of my life! THANKS!!! 🤩🤩🙏🏼🤩🤩

@arthousefilms 5 жыл бұрын

Great. Thanks!!

@TheFuddFactory 5 жыл бұрын

Love the hair!!! Thanks for the tip. I’ll have to keep this in mind. I do have this issue.

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate. Nice to hear from ya! 😃👍

@ciaranmcguigan35 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Super helpful!

@moviesaredope 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. This seriously helped me in the 11th hour

@Web4Panama 3 жыл бұрын

That's very useful, cheers.. By the way, synching in Premiere gets more accurate if you go the little dropdown at the top right of the sequence window and select "show audio time units". You will then be able to drag the audio by much smaller increments without it snapping to the next frame. Switching it back afterward is better for editing your video.

@IsaacAbrams Жыл бұрын

Great video thanks!

@ihcchannel5151 4 жыл бұрын

hi sir i ask u one question how to sync dubbed audio in a video? for example i have one video in which turkish language audio is there but i want to sync hindi dubbed audio in a video? can u tell me how to do that or make a video on this ? please reply i am waiting ur reply?

@yannikfn5382 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you soooooo much this has helped me a lot. Thank you

@JayDeeIsMyName 4 жыл бұрын

This may or may not be a f'ing lifesaver, my man. No joke, this is like actual job saving- if it solves the problem I'm currently having, that is. I'll get back to you in a bit.

@ResoCoder 4 жыл бұрын

Saved me. Thanks!!!

@factandsuspicionpodcast2727 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was pulling my hair out trying to fix this issue. You saved what's left of my sanity.

@GrizDrummer25 3 жыл бұрын

Great advice! I knew it couldn't be entirely my drumming that was making longer songs so far off from the original track, lol :)

@yas1499 3 жыл бұрын

But do you ever have fluctuating audio? Like I have an interview and all the clips have the exact same audio settings and yet some will be significantly louder or more quite than the others. How do I fix that?

@KevinCunninghamPlus 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpful tip. Thank you.

@FathomMinistries Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rougemstr 3 жыл бұрын

life saver! Gonna sub just for that!

@MountUpMedia 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy video! This may have saved my life! Quick question tho, I have a Multicam timeline shot with 3 cameras, all sync with timecode shot at 24 (out of mixpre3ii). One of my cameras was shooting at 23.976 (i know rookie mistake) what would be the best way to match the audio to this? Do i have to restamp the timecode? How can I get the camera to match with the others audio?

@TalkingShackPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

You are a king, thank you so much!

@camerongaubert5896 4 жыл бұрын

I tried using the stretch tool and was able to sync the very end of the timeline, but now the entire middle section falls out of sync. I have the first and last 60 seconds in sync, but after the first 60 it falls out, and before the last 60 seconds it's not back in sync. Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

@thetalkingboy 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!! 😁

@OfficialCJSoprano 11 ай бұрын

This is great! You can change the mode so you can move audio less than one frame though for future reference. Thanks for the fix!

@JohnnieWebb-dr1wt 5 ай бұрын

extremely helpful, thanks

@TrailFeatures 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome tip! With this helping you get your tracks _N-Sync_ you can say _"bye, bye, bye"_ to all those audio problems. 🙃

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Oh jeez... Haha. 😜

@matthewdelany7724 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Is there a way to do it if you don’t have the two audio tracks to line up? Cause I don’t record with my audio on on my camera only with my mic!

@SteveMayedaTV 5 жыл бұрын

Once again....you make the best vids

@geraldundone 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Steve!

@LoveandData 3 жыл бұрын

WOW, this video addressed the exact situation I was facing down. My videographer gave me 4 video clips at 48000 Hz sample rate plus 3 audio clips at 44100 Hz (from a Lavalier mic) and the audio drift was noticeable, especially on the longer clips. I followed your video exactly and it worked perfectly (except for the time I forgot to mute the scratch track in Audition). You da man! I will use this in future situations. Thank you!

@PanosLa 2 жыл бұрын

There is an even easier way, and it's 10x faster than this... you simply take the 44.1kHz and you load them on an audio editing software, and then you export those as 48kHz. They will be sample-accurate...

@moimv2729 3 жыл бұрын

I am going to try this later but i think you will save me a LOT of time with this.

@zackklapman3569 2 жыл бұрын

So damn helpful. I'm so glad to finally know WHY my ZOOM tracks were always drifting from my GoPro tracks, even if I synched them perfectly at the start of my 20-minute clips.

@MrAnthonyKennedy1 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! Cheers!

@arsh_DSJ 5 жыл бұрын

Exact same thing can be done inside premiere pro. Use alt+arrow keys to move layer precisely. And there is time stretch tool in premiere too. But great video 👍👍👍

@vladopohoto4685 3 жыл бұрын

2021 year... it's wasn't fixed... You is my master! Thanks!

@boredinde 4 жыл бұрын

Man this video literally saved one of my podcast recordings. Bruh thanks for sharing ✌🏾

@SimplyFernando 3 жыл бұрын

THAAAAANK YOUUUUUUU saved me so much time. whew!

@cmoneytheman Жыл бұрын

I need help I have 2 shows where even if I change the fps to 25 I'm still out of sync Even if I manually fix a part it becomes out of sync in another scene and its in the French originally in English so im trying to add that back how can i fix this its frustrating

@craigballin8493 4 жыл бұрын

Solid video! Helped a ton... So GoPro breaks up videos clips. I've been nesting them to make them one clip can you take a nested clip into Audition. seems like I can not. Suggestions?

@sadigyara 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💚💚💚💚 You made me find what i was looking for in 7 years of lost Thanks dear very thanks i even download your video and put it in my best videos folder in my phone to save it Thank you dear again god bless you