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iMovie '11 audio sync issues since 9.01 patch

I have an iMac 27 and have been importing old MiniDV tapes since Christmas. The camcorder is a Canon HV20 connected via FireWire. I had no issues until the iMovie 9.01 patch AND Mac OS X 10.6.6 patch.

I have imported 15-20 hours with the patch applied and it appears that the longer the event/segment, the worse the sync issues becomes late in the import. On the camcorder LCD everything looks fine.

Is Apple working on a patch to the patch? Will the patch fix the audio issues or will I need to reimport all of the sync issue MiniDV imports?

iMac 11,3, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 9, 2011 2:39 PM

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drewbsn

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Feb 27, 2013 12:57 PM in response to timothymckean

This worked for me! I was having the same problem - audio starts out synced but gets off badly in the middle and is resynced at the end.

credits to:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2714464?start=60&tstart=0

timothymckean

Re: iMovie '11 audio sync issues since 9.01 patch

If you play the movie in Quicktime or streamclip the audio is synced all the way through. Open the event file in mpeg streamclip (find this by right click on video in imovie, then reveal in finder), then go File - export in quicktime - enter frame rate 30 (fps) and then change the compression pull down menu to Apple Intermediate Codec. I then reimported this new file into imovie and the audio is great all the way through. Took about 5 minutes total.

eenor23

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Jan 16, 2015 6:41 PM in response to drewbsn

I just recorded video in Photobooth, imported to iMovie and the audio went out of sync within a minute on the new iMac. Switched to my Macbookpro and had same issue. Bought the Apple because of their simplicity with audio and video. Didn't used to have this issue on Macbookpro but I did recently update to 10.8.5, the iMac is running Yosemitie and is a slow *****, one year old. So Apple, your programs are incompatible with each other now? Heads up, your export settings in Photobooth are not user adjustable, so are now set wrong, Fail.

iMovie '11 audio sync issues since 9.01 patch