Final Cut Pro out of sync on export

Was curious to see if anyone hasever encountered this issue when using audio sync in Final Cut Pro. I have been syncing 2 dialogue audio tracks from my rode mics and it’s been working well either with 1 angle or multi cam. Recently, during playback or after export, I find that some regions become out of sync and I can hear an echo. It goes away one or two cuts later. Sometimes there is a section that is great during playback, but then the same issue persists after I export. The only solution I have found is to manually cut the other person’s microphone to avoid this. This is very time-consuming and was wondering if anyone had a trick? My frame rates in my project match what I film in 

Mac Studio, macOS 15.1

Posted on Jan 8, 2025 2:03 PM

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Jan 21, 2025 7:54 AM in response to joelmcafee

Sharing this comment from another thread on the same problem in case it's helpful to anyone:


Following up here. We have not found any solution to the problem yet, however we did finally find a serviceable workaround. We were able to export an XML of the problematic edit to Logic and then could edit our audio in logic without the doubling audio problem OR export the individual LAV and BOOM from Logic as individual WAV files and then edit as needed in FCPX. Not ideal but we were able to wrap up this particular project.


One thing worth pointing out - I did notice on comparing the exports with the "doubled audio" problems - I brought the exported audio back into Final Cut and attempted to see if I could line them up manually. One of the individual tracks would shift left/right a frame or two and sometimes were even retimed completely - not lining up at all - seemingly from cut point to cut point. I don't have the screenshot with me on this machine otherwise I'd share it. Hopefully FCPX will address in an UPDATE very soon.

Jan 8, 2025 4:42 PM in response to sototony

I don't recall ever having audio sync issues. A couple things come to mind:


How are you monitoring? Computer speakers or with wireless headphones/airpods?


When FCP behaves strangely, a common troubleshooting step is to delete its Settings/Preferences. Hold option and command while launching FCP and choose Delete Settings (or Delete Preferences if you're using an older version). FCP will open the default Untitled library. Configure the Settings/Preferences back to way you like (turn off Background rendering, etc.) then reopen the library you were working on and see if the issue has been fixed.

Jan 16, 2025 3:22 PM in response to sototony

We’re having the same issue here. You hear the echo at random times while playing back in fcpx. You can restart the played and then it goes away. Upon export some parts have the echo, but then some do not. Seems random. Have tried exporting separate audio tracks (boom on one wav, Lav on another wav) and I can see the issue is randomly appearing on just one of these tracks. No effects or filters are used. Have also tried 2 different computers, have done a clean install of fcpx. No luck. Anyone out there find a solution?

Final Cut Pro out of sync on export

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