Audio syncronization.

It seems that after I captured my video from my Panasonic camera, the audio is not in sync with the video anymore. Now that I've created 200 sub-clips is there any easy way of dealing with this?

Hi Mike,
If your camera recorded in 12-bit vs. 16-bit audio that would cause your audio to be out of alignment. FCE assumes 16 bit audio unless you tell it otherwise. Another possibility is that something happened during capture
If you recorded in 12-bit the only real option is to create a new sequence as a 12-bit sequence and recapture your material.
Assuming you recorded in 16 bit audio, here are a couple of questions -
-have you only captured and done a DV Start/Stop Detect + Mark Make Subclips or have you done a bunch of editing to create your 200 subclips?
- is the audio off by a fixed amount or does it drift out of sync over time?
The simplest case is where the audio is off by a fixed amount and you haven't done any editing yet. In this case, get rid of all the subclips and then drag the entire original captured clip to the timeline (I prefer to drag to the Viewer first, then drag to the Canvas to do an Insert Edit on the Timeline.) Then highlight the clip in the timeline and Unlink the video from the audio tracks. After doing that, you can independently move the audio tracks to bring them into proper alignment with your video track.
Find a frame in your video track where the scene changes and you know the sound should also change. Place a marker at that point in the video track (for reference purposes). Then back up the playhead 15-20 seconds and start playing; listen for the sound change you know should occur at the video marker; when you hear it put a marker at that point in the audio track; it won't be exact but it should be close enough. Then drag the audio track up or down the timeline until your two markers line up. You should be close. From there it just takes noodling to get the audio & video to match up perfectly. It can be done. After you have them lined up you should Link the audio & video tracks back together.
This process will align the audio & video for your entire clip; then you can edit your clip at will. However, you won't be able to use DV Start/Stop Detect + Mark Make Subclip because it would split your realigned clip at the wrong points.

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