Clips out of synch on timeline

I've been editing a film for several months now, and frequently when I open it up I find that the clips on my timeline are all discombobulated. They're moved to different spots, the lengths are all screwed up, and video and audio tracks are often separated and quite far apart. I know I didn't do any of these crazy things. Anybody else ever encounter this problem? It's unbelievably frustrating, especially when I have to go back through THE ENTIRE PROJECT and reset everything.

Um...yes, I'm sure. I'm the only one here. And this is not a joke or anything, it's really happening, and it's driving me insane. If it happens again I really might have a nervous breakdown. Okay, maybe not really, but I'll be thoroughly aggravated.
Anybody have any ideas?

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You might try resetting your fcp preferences:
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Hey Andy, (cue whistling theme music)
Thanks for your informed opinion. Interesting that Apple released FCPX in it's current state rather than wait for the release of Lion. Seems like the core technologies now bundled with the app would make a significant difference running natively.
I'm an audio guy... the next release of Logic Audio is going to be version X, I'm just hoping it's not going to be Garageband Pro.
The reason I was expressing doubts about an OS upgrade making a noticeable difference is.... I heard the same thing about Snow Leopard. As it stands now I have two clients trying to run the latest version of Logic Pro on the current release of SL (10.6.8), the results are not good, the Logic Pro forum has many users unable to get Logic to even boot without crashing.. I'm waiting to hear from support. It seems like the OS is ahead of app development and things are breaking.
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I have edited a movie on Imovie HD 5.0.2, it is about 50 mins long. When I came to record back onto my Sony DCR-HC42E camcorder (I don't have a combo drive on my Imac) the playback is not acceptable. It stutters, freezes and after a while the audio becomes out of synch with the visual. The playback is generally not smooth enough either. I have updated to the latest operating system. I have chosen standard quality playback from the preferences option and am very frustrated at the poor results.
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Mark, if your Mac has just 256MB RAM it's possible adding more RAM will improve playback and your export to the camera. I wouldn't bet on it, but it's certainly worth a try. (You need more RAM anyway, so it's a good idea nevertheless.)
There may be another way to successfully export your project to your camera. Even projects that "stutter" when played in iMovie often export correctly to QuickTime. (The export to QT is not time sensitive, unlike the export to the camera.) You should be able to export your project to a Full Quality DV movie, one of iMovie's built-in export options. Exporting to QuickTime "flattens" the movie, making it easier to play.
You would then import THAT movie to a new iMovie project. That project will probably export successfully to the camera.
You may want to test this by exporting the first few minutes of the project. (To export a group of clips instead of the entire project, select them and use the checkbox button "Share selected clips only" that you'll see in the export dialog.)
You're running low on disk space, so here's a trick to avoid iMovie having to make yet ANOTHER copy of the Full Quality movie when importing it. The movie will be about 12GB; it won't be small.
Instead of importing the Full Quality movie to a new project, create the new iMovie project, Quit iMovie, open the project package (Control-click on the project icon and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popUp menu) then drop the Full Quality movie into the Media folder. Re-open the project. The Full Quality movie appear in the iMovie trash. Open the Trash window and drag the clip to the Timeline. Save, then export to your camera.
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Sorry it took a few days to reply Russ. I wanted a chance to go over the videos carefully.
It does not drift further out of synch, and the synch issue only affects a few short segments of a 42 minute video, one near the beginning, another near the middle and another nearer the end. The segments that have the issue ones were ones I overdubbed audio from an external recorder (Zoom H6) that I used when the video was shot. However, there are many more segments in the video that were similarly overdubbed using the Zoom recordings where synch is not a problem.
On the weekend I tried making compound clips of the problematic segments in the hope that it might accomplish something but it didn't make a difference at all in the Blueray disk I burned-which I played on my aging Samsung Bluray player.
Here's another interesting fact about this problem: all of the mp4 files, I discovered, play perfectly in synch on my Mac. It is only on a PC that some parts are out of synch. Should I be using Quicktime files for PC instead of MP4?
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i have never had formal training on adobe premiere, and therefore when i am working with my students it is basically down to expereince i have gained by myself.
with cs3, we always worked on the basis that it would always export the audio out of synch with the video by 6 frames so they would routinely have the audio tracks on two separate tracks, one for editing and one for exporting which was offset +6 frames.
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is there a logical reason for opting for a preset which is the lowest common denominator rather than a highest? is it not better to work at the best res possible?
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I was just capturing two tapes of a musc video, using a panasonic GS500 to import, shot in 24p on a DVX100, and captured on the standard DV NTSC 48 kHz preset. When I watched my clips afterwards, I found that the audio falls out of synch in the longer clips. I don't understand why this has happened, because I thought the 24p was still recorded on the tape as DV NTSC but with a 3:2 pulldown effect on it. My question is how can I fix this importing problem so it doesn't fall out of synch again when I re-import?
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