Problem with Syncing 48000 hz Camera audio with 44100 hz lapel audio? Need help any suggestions?

Question

I recently did a project and recorded my video with 48000 hz and then on accidentally recorded my lapel mic audio with 44100 hz. I now need to sync the two together but seems impossible? What should I do?
I have tried to convert the audio in audacity to 48000 but this has not helped why is the audio out of sync and how do I fix this?

Answer 1

I've been following sound gear threads on a couple other forums recently, and something that's come up quite a bit is the varying speeds of sound recorders. Some are VERY accurate, many are semi-accurate, and some just plain suck. It tends to be a you-get-what-you-paid-for situation but some cheap v-r's record dead on the same as the camera's vid footage and a few pricier ones drift enough over say a 5 minute interview that they need to consistently have their output time-adjusted. One I was reading involved a $300+ sound recorder, that simply needed to have a multiplier of 1.075 or something like that applied to everything out of it. The commenter takes all files from it, drops them in Audition, applies his standard time mod, and then exports that out and into PrPro. Then it syncs perfectly.
As long as a recorder does the exact same pace all the time, one can adjust. It's when a recorder varies the speed slightly moment by moment that makes it really unusable ... constantly but barely sliding in and out of sync. Yuck.
Neil