iMovie not syncing sound with video properly...
I have a project in iMovie that is really intricate in terms of the number of edits, sound clips, audio....its very intense compared to anything I've ever done with video before. I have 17 minutes of footage and in iMovie everything seems to be sinked when I play it within the program. I created a DVD out of it, also I exported the exact same project to camera with both resulting in the same issue. The sound on the second half of the video is ever so slightly out of sink with the video, producing an annoying audio/visual blunder. It isnt so terrible that the video cant be watched and enjoyed, it just bugs me that it does this after countless hours of exact and detailed editing work...I dont know why its happening or how to resolve it. Any help is very, very much appreciated. Thank you.
Oh, to be precise (no pun intended) the sound and video is off on clips that have the sound attached to them. Regularly imported DV from the camera is doing this, it really makes no sense. The only thing I can think of that might cause this is the fact that I bumped up the volume on the clips, almost all of them, to 150%. Would that cause a sinking issue??
Oh, to be precise (no pun intended) the sound and video is off on clips that have the sound attached to them. Regularly imported DV from the camera is doing this, it really makes no sense. The only thing I can think of that might cause this is the fact that I bumped up the volume on the clips, almost all of them, to 150%. Would that cause a sinking issue??
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How about some liquid plumber?
Originally posted by Flounder
Out of sink?
How about some liquid plumber?
Thanks, but this is an important project for a film making class that my group and I have spent days on. If anyone knows what I could possibly do to fix this issue, it would save my grade and make my presentation a lot better. No wonder people get bad impressions of Apple sometimes, stuff doesnt always work as advertised. I have done nothing out of the ordinary, iMovie has never done this in the thousands of times I've used it before...but now, on the eve of my presentation, kablooom!
Maybe iMovie version 4 will fix this, I get iLife tomororw and am just wondering? Can I even re-open this project in iMovie 4? Oh man, i'm just flipping out about this, shit.
edit: basically, leave the fps blank
To alleviate this problem...won't be easy, if that's what it is. You'd basically need to send the music into a different program to convert the rates to the same as your camcorder.
If this is NOT the problem, it could be that when you laid down the music it bumped your audio-following-video out of sync.
Let me know if this helps at all.
I'm using a 800 MHZ iMac with 512 megs of ram ( Just upgraded to 768 megs of Ram when I added ilife 4 and iMovie opens faster)
You should run NORTONs Disk Doctor to keep your drive files in order, I just added this program and it seems to help a little( I went over a year without it) Also the David Pogue book iMovie the missing Manual REALLY helped out on these big iMovie projects.
GOOD LUCK!
Ken Waller
Cinema insomnia
Glad the trick worked. I'll give a update on iMovie 4 on Friday after I use it to edit this weeks show...
Ken
Thats all for now...
Ken
I made a massive project in iMovie 3. Lots of fade ins and outs, extra music, etc etc.
I upgraded to iMovie 4 and it openend the project fine. BUT
about halfway into the movie the audio that plays and the corresponding audio tracks totally do not correspond visiually.
The audio and video are synched no problem... but the audio timeline below is whacked.
For example, if I edit the volume at 01:00:00 it will actually happen a few seconds BEFORE, at, say 00:59:55. Nontheless, it all LOOKS fine.
Any idea of what the hell I have to do?
Originally posted by ZO
sorry... what do you mean by exporting the audio? Then what?
Select every single video clip and then export the audio to the timeline. It will take care of the syncing once you "share" the video.