Motion 5.6 audio clip cuts the first second or two before it starts playing the sound

Thanks for your response. I had those settings already checked based on feedback from a thread from a few years ago.

But i now have resolved the issue, ironically, by using the time tested solution - shut down and reboot. I'm glad to say it's been resolved now but frustrated i spent so much time trying to fix it.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.

Thanks for the reply but I think it’s something else. This doesn’t happen just at the beginning of the project/clip, it happens anywhere I place the play head. So for example I can start in the middle of the project and hit play and the movie appears fine but I won’t hear any audio for 1-2 seconds. But then when it finally starts, it’s in sync and totally fine.

I was looking for a setting of some sort that might explain the behavior but can’t find anything. I do see a lot of comments about Motion not really being designed for audio, which I get, but what I’m doing isn’t too complicated.

thanks for your response.

As i mentioned in a response below, my problem has been resolved, not by making any changes to my settings, but simply by shutting down and rebooting. That fixed the issue...