Out-of-sync sound

Thought I was doing well on my first project and my clips got out of sync. I've gone through the manual, did what it said and I get a "Unable to put items in sync. Another item is in the way." Video is one V1. Audio is on A1/A2. However, from the beginning to the out-of-sync clips, there is a darkish gray area on V1/V2 that I can't get rid of and assume this is the "item" that is in the way. All but one of the clips are +51:19 out. I had tried to move the audio clip to another audio track, but it just pushed the video clip up a track and the two won't match up. As a result the very first clip now says it out by 28:20. Any thoughts to help my out would be appreciated.

MPEG 4 is not an editing format.
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Does this camera shoot HD or SD?

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