Variable Bit Rate video support?

Thanks Anne. You are correct. I am mixing up vbr and vfr.

Where is what happened. I had video from the cannon and and two iPhones of the same event. When I lined them up in elements all three were out of sync in video after a few minutes. The audio was all in sync. I used the audio track to get them in sync at the beginning and the waveform showed perfect alignment all the way through.

I’d seen the problem before with iPhone video but had never had the cannon before. I made the bad assumption that the cannon had the same issue. I opened the manual and found it had notes about vbr causing the file sizes to not be perfectly predictable based on video length and there was no way to turn that off. That’s where I mixed up vbr and vfr and why I titled the post that way.

So the iPhones video still have the incompatibility with elements but the cannon does not.

I’m happy to know I don’t have to convert all the Cannon camera’s video. But it still seems like elements should support iPhone video.

I assume it must be a little tricky to directly edit vfr video. Would be nice if Adobe at least had a converter built in which would convert it with no change in the video source. Just add the missing frames and change to constant frame rate. Seems like a converter like that would rip through gigs of iPhone video very fast and avoid all the compression and other changes handbrake will mess with depending on how it’s set.

I appreciate the offer to look at the source for me but I don’t have the permission from the people to share it.

I’m pretty sure the confusion was just mine when reading the Cannon manual.