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SpiderCircle
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February 18, 2024
Question

Audio drift in Premiere 2024

  • February 18, 2024
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Hey Premiere Gurus! I’ve been using Premiere for a very long time and never experienced this issue.

I recorded a podcast using Audition, 3 people mic and when I sync the stems to video in Premiere audio starts to drift off. The audio track is about a minute shorter than the video itself oddly enough.

I tried using the Stretch tool in Audition and R on the keyboard in Premiere to sync the end successfully however, the middle is still way out of sync.

Is there something I’m missing to fix this issue?

Usually I just import the stems, lay in sequence Right Click to Synchronize with video and boom, all is good in Premiere World to cut away. I really don’t want to sit there and readjust each sentence with every speaker. That would be super time consuming.

Any advice, suggestions, or troubleshooting would be incredibly helpful. Thanks!

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Community Expert
February 18, 2024

Most likely your video's frame rate is variable, variable frame rates videos are not good for video editing. Convert the video into a fixed frame rate one using a free converter, such as Handbrake, before importing it into Pr.

SpiderCircle
Known Participant
February 19, 2024

The videos frame rate is consistent at 3840x2160 (4K) at 29.97fps. If VFR is the issue I think usually you would right click to the videos properties and would display VFR and does not display. Should I still use HandBrake to transcode to the same aspect ratio and fps?