Fix Audio Sync Drift in Your Videos Using Adobe Premiere & Audition

Tutorial for fixing audio drift in videos when syncing audio recorded on an external recorder. E.g. If your audio goes out of sync by the end of your edit.
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[geraldundone]

Thanks for watching! I hope you all have a happy new year. 😃🙏

[prestonurvina]

When you find one of your go-to Youtubers has a 3 year old video that saves the day once again! Thanks for the years of assistance Gerald!

[EposVox]

Couple Notes:
Right click your timeline timecode/playhead area, Show Audio Time units - then you can align same as in Audition, and probably just use the Rate Stretch tool (R key?) to conform as needed, too. Save the Audition export steps.
Right clicking your audio and video in the bins and hitting "Merge Clips" and then based on waveforms, append tracks, delete original audio -- with claps and no drift has never not worked for me.
If you're getting audio drift just recording in Audition with nothing intensive going on on your PC, I definitely recommend digging into your frequency settings or something, that's really not normal at all other than when your CPU is under intense load causing your audio driver to stall out.

[kaylonrushing]

You just saved my life omg. I've been spending HOURS cutting and dragging manually to fix this. Didn't even think to try the stretch tool 🤦🏽

[AdamDuffArt]

You just saved me about 5 accumulative years of my life

I WISH I knew this before some hellish editing sessions

Thank you so much!!

[promptandcircumstance]

I have been struggling with this (wasting hours of time) for over two weeks. This video has literally saved the majority of my weekend. THANK YOU.

[PlayguePals]

I didn't even know this was a common issue, I just assumed it was me! Thank you, very helpful.

[caea]

I was done with my life, then i watched your channel on Camera Conspiracies video and now you undone my life. Thanks

[KeltonOConnell]

FYI This can be done in Premiere too using the rate stretch tool. Thanks for this, Gerald- super duper helpful!!

[CyrusHostetler]

You can do this all in premiere.

First, sync up your clips in the timeline the best you can, then right click anywhere in the time section of the timeline and choose "Show Audio Time Units" this will allow you to zoom in way closer and even see individual sine curves of the audio. From here you can further sync it as accurately as Adobe audition.

Next I would cut the start of both clips where the claps start
Then scroll to the end and cut the end of the audio on both clips at a known audio break. (If you have audio drift they should be different lengths)
Then right click your video track and choose speed/duration.
Copy the length of the video in minutes:frames and cancel out
Choose your Audio clip that is trimmed, right click, select "speed/duration" and paste the length timecode that you copied from the video. Be sure to click maintain pitch checkbox as well.

You should now have synced audio.

Alternatively you can go to your toolbar at the top, click and hold the ripple edit tool and select "rate stretch" from the drop down. You can now stretch the audio clip to accurately sync to the video.

Please note, you should take your timeline out of "Show Audio Time Units" after you are complete, otherwise cutting, zooming, and scrolling through your timeline will be much harder

[SimonJamesCarter]

You know when you watch a video and the person explains exactly what’s going wrong with your project and how to solve it?! That just happened, thank you so much 🤙

[kian]

So it's actually, actually those youtubers' fault when A/V go out of sync, I've been thinking for a while to upgrade my GPU just because of this. Thank you Gerald.

[michaeljones]

Without a doubt, your tip has cut **hours** out of my workload each week! Absolutely incredible post tip. One the best Premiere tips ever

[christiandacosta]

This is why I love youtube. Just fixed my audio drift with your help. Thanks man!

[AdamPrestNZ]

You can do sub frame positioning of audio in premiere if you right-click the timecode ruler above the timeline and select show audio time units. Then you can adjust audio by individual samples instead of by frame. This way you can line up your claps perfectly between camera audio and external sound.

[cybrtrkguy]

Dude you just saved my life. Holy smokes. I've been searching for ages for a solution to this. THANK YOU.

[damienstubbs]

Thanks so much for this video! I've been agonising for months over whether my issues were in Traktor, my camera, or something I was doing wrong. Now syncing my dj mixes with video perfectly. I've adapted your technique to use with Resolve and Audacity. Just takes a little more work to stretch the audio. 👍👏

[Fotomo]

You can actually stretch the audio clip aswell in Premiere directly. Just use the clip speed tool. Works for audio aswell and you can stretch the track. I dont remember the correct name since I am using Davinci now.

[jqs.]

thank you so much! this tutorial helped us fix an audio sync bug we had been working at for an hour in premiere — life-saver!!

[kiyanazarbar]

Dude, your videos are incredible, and your "what is happening?" intro always cracks me up. This explanation of sync drift is concise but also incredibly intuitive. I've worked with Audition and music production and DJ software quite a bit so I'm used to these concepts, but your explanation of why you need to keep the original scratch audio track conveyed a difficult concept in a very small number of words. Always look forward to your videos! Now please do a comparison of HLG vs F-Log on the Fuji XT-3 and tell me which one to use and how to expose for it using the NINJA V, when I have a dynamic light source in the background :)