Audio drift in Premiere 2024

[SpiderCircle]

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!

[Ali Jaber]

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]

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? 

[SpiderCircle]

I just tried transcoding using HandBrake and unfortunately this audio drift issue continues. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!