Export Timing Off

Nuendo
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So I’m running into an issue and I could use some advice. I’ve been working on some web series episodes, each one between 10-15 minutes long. I bounce all the audio down to MX, DX, and FX stems, do a final mix, bounce that down, and then export. When I export the audio by itself, and then lay it into the video file, it’s anywhere between 5-15 seconds shorter than the video. So everything syncs up right at the top but by the end its way off from video. If I export audio and video together as a video file, the timing holds and it lines up right from beginning to end. Anybody have any thoughts about this?

I’m on a 2017 MBP with a 3.1 GHz Quad Core Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB RAM. I was having this issue on Nuendo 10.2.10 and I still have it on 10.2.20

Thanks!

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The only thing that is certain is that it’s not the program.

I use Nuendo for TV and feature films daily for the last 13 years, and that have never ever happened.

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Hi

With “export audio and video together” you mean the Nuendo “Export Video” command…? With export audio you mean the “Export Audio Mixdown” ?
As Eric says ist very unlinkely that Nuendo would do anything different in this 2 mixdowns (it be then that sample rate is set differently). How du you “lay audio into video”? Its much more likely that somethimg goes wrong there.
Oswald

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Hi, yes “export audio and video together” = “Export Video” command, “export audio” = “Export Audio Mixdown.”

The first time this happened, I found out because I sent my audio mixdown to the video editor, and he told me that it wasn’t lining up correctly. So to test it out I used iMovie - I imported the video I was working with into iMovie, then imported my audio mixdown into iMovie, and could see for myself that the audio was shorter than the video. I tried to do the Export Audio Mixdown again, and got the same result. I tried doing the Export Audio Mixdown with different variables like deactivating my mastering plugin, and got the same result. But when I used the Export Video command, it worked fine.

I’m curious about what you said about the different sample rates - when I imported the AAF from the video editor, I got a popup that said something like "some clips in this AAF have a different sample rate than the project sample rate. Could that cause this issue? If so, is there a way to get Nuendo to convert sample rates when importing an AAF?

Thanks!

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If anybody else needs help with this - Turns out the latest update (10.2.20) has a new feature where it automatically converts imported audio in AAFs to the project sample rate.