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1. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
JSS1138 Feb 18, 2012 7:26 PM (in response to Saad Khan)This sounds more like a playback issue rather than an encoding issue. Unfortunately, you've chose about the two worst media players out there.
Try it in VLC, how's it work?
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2. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 19, 2012 4:12 PM (in response to JSS1138)Hi Jim
VLC player played it perfectly. The voice was in sync. However, the audio was out of sync slightly when I uploaded it to vimeo. Have you heard this happening before?
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3. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Stephen_Spider Feb 19, 2012 4:34 PM (in response to Saad Khan)With your sequence preset and h264 output, are you keeping the audio sampling frequency the same as the source footage?
Also, have you sampled vimeo's playback on multiple systems?
Vimeo has given me good results on several projects.
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4. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
JSS1138 Feb 19, 2012 5:38 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Have you heard this happening before?
I've never uploaded to that site.
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5. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 19, 2012 7:14 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Hi. I've checked the frequency settings and I've played back on multiple systems with the same results.
Is there something else I could try or could I supply more information so you'd have a better understanding of what's happening.
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6. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Stephen_Spider Feb 19, 2012 7:48 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Refer to the raw footage to compare sound.
Refer to your sequence to make sure that you didn't push the audio out of synch at all.
Delete the media cache from the project and let premiere re-conform the audio.
Post the complete source, sequence and export settings.
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7. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 20, 2012 5:49 AM (in response to Saad Khan) -
8. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 20, 2012 5:39 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Ok. I deleted all the Media Cache files. Re conformed all the audio. After export I'm still getting the same results. When I play the files on the Windows media player, it's fine. When I play the files on Quicktime, or upload the video to Vimeo, you can clearly see the difference. The audio is out of sync. I have also tried the same file on another system.
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9. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 20, 2012 5:40 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Here is a list of hardware on my computer...
Leadtek PCI-E Quadro 4000 2GB DDR5
Lite on IHBS212 Blue Ray writer
ASRock X79 Extreme 4 LGA2011 X79 DDR3 USB3 Motherboard
Corsair HX-750 ATX Power Supply Unit
Thermaltake Armor+ Full Tower Without PSU
2 G.Skill Ripjaws-X 8G Kit (4Gx2) DDR3 2133 F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL
Hitachi 3.5" Desktop 1TB SATA3 HDD 7200rpm
Seagate 3.5" Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003 SATA3 %())RPM 64M HDD
CPU-I7-3930K Intel I7 3.2Ghz, LGA2011, 12M
Corsair CWCH60 H60 Universal Hydro High Performance CPU cooler
TP-LINK TL-WN821N USB 2T2R Upto 300M Wireless-N Network Adapter
Blackmagic Decklink Intensity Pro
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10. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Stephen_Spider Feb 20, 2012 11:48 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Cripes, what I've seen looks in order. I don't think it is a hardware issue.
Is the audio consistent, or does it drift?
The Audio in the sequence is wav extracted from raw footage, no? Was the audio recorded in camera? Was it a multicamera shoot? Was the original audio\video file the same sampling frequency? Same fps as the sequence?
And, if the audio was doctored outside of premiere, is there a chance that the time was altered?
Are the audio and video locked together on the timeline? Was it locked throughout the process?
Do you monitor the audio through the Blackmagic Decklink Intensity Pro while editing? Does the windows media player also use the card? I only ask because I had a matrox card that did this. If the Card's audio is looped back through the system, it could cause the delay in playback monitoring.
The source sequence is 50fps and the output is 25 fps. Have you tried outputing a 50fps file? Is the source footage 50fps?
If you export an un-edited source clip from the project, do you still get the issue?
All those questions aside, it seems really strange that it plays fine on the timeline, WMP, and VLC, but QT and Vimeo don't work for you. Are you getting the exact sme delay in QT and Vimeo? Could you post a link to the vimeo page? Have you tried test a youtube upload. Have you tried a HD WMV, mpeg2 or DVD of the project?
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11. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Stephen_Spider Feb 20, 2012 11:55 PM (in response to Saad Khan)I'm starting to lean towards Jim's insight. Quicktime is no daisy. However I have never had issues with vimeo. As well as trying a 50 fps h.264 file, you might raise or lower the audio bitrate.
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12. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
shooternz Feb 21, 2012 12:22 AM (in response to Saad Khan)The source footage appears to be AVCHgd which I believe is a lite version of AVCHD.
Wonder if this has any bearing on the issue?
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13. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 21, 2012 6:19 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Hi All,
I think the issue could be related to the audio settings on my machine. I have outputed to a mpeg file which plays correctly, but when I imported the file into Adobe Encore on another machine, I got this result:
and here is a zoomed out image of the same sequence in Encore
So I think there could be something wrong with the sound card settings or setup. I really don't know . Stephen, I tried the 50fps setting and got the same result. I checked the sequnce and it's definitely in sync on the timeline because I can see when the audio is playing and it's perfect output and yes, I'm using the blackmagic sequnce, however, because my IT guy thinks it has something to do with the Sound cards conflicting, he's turned on only one soundcard. I hope the info I've provided is useful!
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14. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Alan Craven Feb 21, 2012 11:17 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Do you have some still images on your timeline? The only time that I have had this happen a group of stills was the cause. It was not the audio that was affected, but the stills set at 6 seconds on the timeline, did not come out at quite that after encoding.
The still image files did not appeaer to be corrupted - they opened and could be edited in Photoshop - but the only way round the problem was to go back to the originals off the SD card and re-edit them, and use these to replace the originals in the project.
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15. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 23, 2012 1:54 AM (in response to Saad Khan)Hi. Ok there are some still images on my timeline.
I haven't played around too much with them, but then I thought I'd open up Quicktime and play around with the settings. I changed the audio settings from .mov to AAC and now the video plays fine in the quicktime player, however the audio is still the same when I play it in Vimeo. Does this make any sense?
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16. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Feb 23, 2012 2:21 AM (in response to Saad Khan)shooternz, the source footage is DSLR. I was told to put into a AVCHD sequence for best results from the people at Blackmagic.
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17. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
NathanMateer Mar 2, 2012 3:25 AM (in response to Saad Khan)I have the same problem. quicktimes with h264, vimeo and youtube even.
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18. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
NathanMateer Mar 2, 2012 4:56 AM (in response to NathanMateer)Disabling my blackmagic audio device and enabling it again fixed it for me. Also a restart had fixed it in the past but sadly not for long.
Hopefully it'll not break again.
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19. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Mar 5, 2012 3:33 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Thank you everyone for your reply's. I can't believe how silly I was. You were right. The audio was out of sync! It's just less obvious when playing it back on the timeline. Sorry for wasting everyone's time!
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20. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Stephen_Spider Mar 6, 2012 8:18 PM (in response to Saad Khan)Doh!
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21. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
whiskey3 Mar 29, 2013 2:48 PM (in response to NathanMateer)How did you solve this? Everytime whether I export to .mov or mp4 from my project the audio is out of sync by half a second. I have the BlackMagic as well. When I made a DVD or a Blu-ray the audio is in sync no problem. I'm not using the BM for audio just video. I am using the Adobe desktop for audio.
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22. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Saad Khan Mar 30, 2013 5:39 AM (in response to whiskey3)I solved this because I realised my audio was out of sync. when I went back to the timeline, the audio really was out of sync. Does that answer your question?
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23. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
whiskey3 Mar 30, 2013 11:57 AM (in response to Saad Khan)No really cause my audio is in sync on the timeline and only out of sync when I make MP4 or mov's. It is only in sync when I export MPEG or MPEG for Blu-ray. It's a major bug with CS6 and I can't believe they don't fix this.....
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24. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
JSS1138 Mar 30, 2013 6:36 PM (in response to whiskey3)I'm not sure it is a bug. My exports always come out in perfect sync.
What are you using to play back the files?
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25. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
whiskey3 Mar 30, 2013 6:44 PM (in response to JSS1138)I have RedONE 4K files in a 1920x1080 24fps 23.976 sequence. I full feature independent film in the Premiere CS6 timeline. It plays back on the timeline perfectly in sync but when rendered to anything but MPEG or MPEG for Blu-ray it is off by a half second or so consistently.
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26. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
eyreadri Apr 8, 2013 1:59 PM (in response to whiskey3)Did you get an answer @whiskey3?
I am also encountering this Error With r3d Files, In a 1920x1080 comp! Plays back on timeline fine, But then h264 output, conistantly puts it 2 seconds out for me? any ideas?
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27. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
whiskey3 Apr 8, 2013 2:08 PM (in response to eyreadri)No.... the only thing I found out is that if I render to MPEG or Blu-ray MPEG that is the only way that it stays in sync? Pisses me off? Adobe should fix this problem it is ********. If you find out anything from Adobe let me know?
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28. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Kent Purdy Apr 16, 2013 3:30 PM (in response to whiskey3)Just to add to this thread. I have the same problem. Using CS6 with all updates on a dedicated desktop media i7.I didnt have this problem in CS5. I made 8 BDs with CS5.No problem. Now If I render with h.264 Blu-ray or h.264 Blu-ray legacy the audio is short by one second every 30 minutes(approx). If i use MPEG Blu-ray it stays in sync.And its perfect, 30 min or 2 hours. Ive finally given up and just made this BD with mpeg blu ray. Surely Adobe will fix this. I cant tell the difference in video quality. Can someone explain the difference if there is one between H264 BLU RAY AND MPEG BLU RAY?
Thanks Kent
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29. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
JSS1138 Apr 16, 2013 8:53 PM (in response to Kent Purdy)Are you also using R3D files, Kent?
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30. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
Kent Purdy Apr 18, 2013 7:02 AM (in response to JSS1138)Jim and all 9k plus viewers of this thread: Please read this though. Come on Adobe contributers, contribute!
No R3D files, just plane vanilla AVCHD. BUT, I have some good information (as to why I think this out of sync problem is occurring) that may help others. My files are AVCHD 720p
(1280 × 720 16x9 59.94 Progressive ). Put on a timeline that matches in PP CS6. As I stated before (If I export with h.264 Blu-ray or h.264 Blu-ray legacy the audio is short by one second every 30 minutes(approx).Using Preset H.264 HD720p 59.94.(Which should be a match to my footage.)
After many tests with different presets I have found that by exporting from PP CS6 with Preset H.264 HD 1080i 29.97 the video and audio are a PERFECT match.
Now to figure out why. I have discovered what may be the reason. I hope someone with a better understanding of what I am about to explain will expound upon it.
When scrolling down my timeline one frame at a time, every two minutes it loses FOUR frames (or adds 4, not sure of terminology) . Example: 1min:59sec:59frames skips to 2min:00sec:04frames.This repeats EVERY 2 minutes. The only thing I can figure out is that using the interlaced preset takes these four frames into account, and the files then match.
Ok lets have some discussion and maybe some clarity on what's happening here.(But it works,I guess that's what's important).
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31. Re: Audio out of sync h.264 file. Premiere CS5.5
sammyjulia Jan 4, 2014 8:37 PM (in response to Stephen_Spider)Sorry, ahd another ?. You mention to make sure the 'audio sampling frequency should be the same as the source footage. R u referring to whether it's 32 K or 48,000K? If not, what are you referring to.
I looked that the properties from the original source footage - audio : bit rate 384kbps, channels 2, audio sample rate 48kHz - which is the same as the output listed in the MEDIA Encoder window










