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Problems with iMovie Audio Sync?

• Hey there, I record gameplay with my EyeTV3 on my Mac. When I export clips out of EyeTV to my desktop to view them, the audio is fine and everything is synced. When I import the clips into iMovie, the audio slowly goes out of sync during the video and at the very end, it's almost 5 seconds off sync. In order to get around this, I've been detaching the audio and dragging it to where it's almost synced, but that editing process is a huge pain since I also have to edit my own commentary. Is there some setting within iMovie that I can change so that the audio will be synced correctly? Surely that's not how iMovie is, I bet a lot of people don't even know how to detach the audio and drag it like I've been doing. Please let me know how to fix this! Thanks!

• Answer:

  Not sure what the exact cause is, but I would suggest that you transcode the file into a .MOV file using the Apple Intermediate Codec for video compression. If you have iMovie '11, you can do this with the already imported clip using File->Optimize Video->Full Original Size. (Select the clip in the clip browser before that.) With older iMovie versions, use MPEG Streamclip (freeware) to transcode the file before you import it. http://www.squared5.com Drag the file onto the MPEG Streamclip application icon to launch it, then choose File->Export to QuickTime, and, in the export options window, choose 'Apple Intermediate Codec' for compression, the 'unscaled' frame size, Quality 100%, then click on Make Movie to start the conversion.