Synced audio in a file is out of sync in premiere/prelude

I have a file from a documentary film I'm working on that happened to be shot on the iPod Touch. When playing back the original files, the audio is perfectly synced. In Premiere and Prelude, the audio is fast (or the video is slow, I can't tell.) so it gradually goes out of sync, and unfortunately most of the files are minutes long, one, an hour long. I naturally assumed it was the transcoding, but even when importing the straight file, with nothing done to it, not even a rename, and it's still out of sync. It makes no sense, and this is my university thesis, so some help would be appreciated. Thanks.

gnash799 wrote:
Is there a lower-tech solution for this? There's gotta be. I should be able to tell Action! to record using BKM and then for Premiere to edit and render it properly. Why all the hoops?
I don't use Action as it's superfluous in my opinion.  I don't know how to tell it to do software-based encoding into a fixed frame rate.  It might not even be possible.  If it were, then you'd know it: your in-game FPS will drop quite a bit because your CPU load increases.  But again, I don't use Action, so I'm not sure.  That'll have to be an exercise left to the reader.
The other solution is to install Handbrake and figure out how to convert the MP4 that way.
Those are your choices.  Pr and Elements can't properly handle VFR files.  In almost every case, the audio and video will be out of sync.

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