iMovie Video Audio sync issues due to VBR or codecs.
Sharing my experience and hopefully useful. I have been editing clips from 2 different phones and getting a constant sync issue when trying to align them. The answers on the forum were pretty vague but I had an Eureka moment.
- Choose a starting point on both files. (The files should be stacked top and bottom)
- Go to the end where the files will not be synced. Choose a point which should be the same on both files (a line of dialog, cough, clap). (I use the marker)
- Click on the top file and select Show Speed Editor.
- Drag the editor until both marker points are lined up.
You can do the same for audio.
I can't believe for almost 2 months I was dragging and lining up files manually.
Mac mini, macOS 15.6