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Originally Posted by martifingers
Sounds stressful marji! I don't use Reaper for video but perhaps until someone better comes along I could ask a few things.
1. Do you mean the audio synch is off when you simply add a clip to Reaper and try and play it or does the loss of synch happen at some point in the editing?
2. Is the lag consistent (in time and direction)? Is it possible to just move the audio into synch? (This has happened to me with some video captured from tape.)
3. Is the lag still present if you render the project?
My thinking here is to see if it's just a failure of your system to keep up with the demands on it. I reckon this should be solved when you render "off line" so to speak.
4. Desperate I guess but what about converting to a different format first before editing? Are all your codecs up to date? (I know you said things worked before so maybe this is not helpful.)
Like I say I am no expert but that's all I can think of just off the top of my head. Hopefully someone will come along with better ideas soon.
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Hi Martifingers!! Thank you SO much for responding!!!
I'm not actually editing video. What's out of synch is what I'm hearing in my headphones versus what I'm seeing on the waveform track. In other words, where there should be silence (as indicated by no waveform--just a line indicating nothing) there's sound. And, where there is a waveform, it's not what I'm hearing. Like, laughter appears as a staccato waveform, but I can see that it's way off. This is making it really hard for me to edit things out that need to be removed (like extraneous sounds, prolonged silences, verbal tics, etc.).
It seems to me that it's a performance issue, because what I'm hearing doesn't sound smooth and right. I just don't know how to fix it! Or, even *what* to fix.
I don't know enough about sample rates or that kind of thing.
I wonder: Could it be that my sound card is failing? Could it be that I'm asking an old computer to do too much? Ugh.
I don't know what a "codec" is, so I can't say whether they're up to date or not. Of course, given that I don't know what a codec is, it's very likely that it's not up to date. I'll see what I can learn about that.
Thank you again, Martifingers, for your kind and helpful response!!!! I deeply appreciate the time you took!!!!!