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Greetings all. I have two G4 Powerbooks with FCE HD 3.0. I record videos on a mini-DV camera and audio externally in Logic (musical performances) and import the audio from Logic and want to sync it up with the waveform from the camera audio. Because making Quicktime Movies for utube is a long process I like to set one machine at this while continuing to work on the other. However while on my main machine there is no noticeable synchronisation issue, on the second machine longer takes eg a couple of minutes start to be problematically out of sync by the end.
I normally record in Logic at 44.1 KHz and assuming this to be to do with FCE wanting a sample rate of 48K I just bounced down a couple of samples at 48 and tried those but playing back in the timeline at least there is still the sync problem, so I suppose it will still be there when I make the .mov file.
So is there something about the settings on the second machine that are different and are causing this problem please? I have of course looked and not found anything that seems to apply. How should I have things set so that I can get proper synchronisation?
Many thanks
Stephen

Ah thanks, hadn't looked in the Sequence. There it says Aud Rate 48, Aud Format 32-bit floating point. The camera's audio is 48K and 16 bit, the imported audio, with which it does not sync after a while, is now also 48 and 16. The camera audio data rate is given as 6.9MB/sec and the imported as 187.5K/sec. The camera's audio, for removal of doubt, is perfectly in sync with the video.
I looked in a FCE project made on the other Powerbook, with some long takes, and the settings are all the same except that the imported audio is still at 44K.
I might add that the convenience of using this other PB is not simply a time saving issue, its an old one I feel comfortable taking places and working on things when I'm away, whereas the main PB is plugged into all sorts of things and I'd rather keep it here. Not least, that's why its still working perfectly 7 years later...
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