Large Audio Delay and Waveform discrepancy between preview and timeline. Off Sync

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November 18, 2024
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My audio track is playing behind where it should. Audio in preview window starts at frame 6, and it shows the waveform in the timeline as also starting at frame 6, however, when you hit play, the audio doesnt acutally begin until frame 26.

Its espically frustrating as I have been relying on the visual waveforms for my editing, but I can not actually trust them as they are not displaying acurately.

Context:
I'm doing a video edit in Spanish, and I dont speak spanish. For a work around the Spanish voice talent wrote down timecode with transcription and translation.
The issue is, I have gone through in the preview window, and made markers in the preview timeline of what the translations are in english so I know what graphics to put at those timecodes. However, they do not line up. They are offset in time from one and other. I first noiced it in this one sction(screenshoted) at first where the talent should be saying one thing, but it was already said by that point in the timeline even though, it was before my marker. When I click on it in the timeline, it brings me to the matching time, but the audio is behind.

Source audio and timeline sample rate match up.
30fps nondrop
1080p
44100Hz

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Correct answer Joe_wpi

@jamieclarke Disregard.
I got it, it was my mistake, I've been trying so many different things, I didn't even notice that track 4 audio was set to solo, and the audio I was trying to work off was track 5. The audio was off in time because I was hearing a different take from the voice talent.
Thanks for your help and input.

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @Joe_wpi - We are glad you figured it out.

If you have some time it would be great if you would try the built in Transcription tool!

let us know if you have any other trouble.

Joe_wpiAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

@jamieclarke Disregard.
I got it, it was my mistake, I've been trying so many different things, I didn't even notice that track 4 audio was set to solo, and the audio I was trying to work off was track 5. The audio was off in time because I was hearing a different take from the voice talent.
Thanks for your help and input.

Joe_wpiAuthor

Inspiring

Hey @jamieclarke You misunderstand the issue. You are correct that the timeline indicator is showing at a different moment in time between the 2 screenshots. That was the purpose of what I was trying to show. Both screenshots show the same moment in time that I hear the acutal audio play. That is the issue, the audio playback is offset in time with the source clip. Same with the audio waveforms, its offset.

As per you transcription comment, That would not help in this situation as it would auto transcribe in Spanish. The markers I made just for myself in english so I knew what was being said at that moment, in english. All of my markers are correct in the source window. The spanish voice talents timecode is irrelevant in this situation as I just used it as a guideline in order to make the markers in the source window.

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @Joe_wpi - From your screenshots it looks like your source is over the marker "for the essential plan" but your program is over "recently expanded eligibility". Have you tried using the transcription tool built into Premiere Pro in the "Text" panel? Another cause could be that the file your talent used to transcribe was using an alternate timecode than what you are seeing.

Joe_wpiAuthor

Inspiring

For a test, I made a duplicate project and converted the audio to 48000Hz and changed the timeline setting to match, but the issue remained.

Just adding more info:
I'm on a M2 Max Studio
OS: 15.1
Premiere v:25.0.0 (Build 61)

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