Video sync not correct. Picture not playing in sync but Audio is correct

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Hi. I work with Video files all the time in my work as a Sound Designer, but I am only dabbling with making scores in Dorico. Dorico is a fantastic application.

I wanted to test out Dorico with a video file while transcribing a person playing the electric bass. I adjusted the tempo of my transcription score to match the actual playing. The audio was perfectly in sync, but the video was not!

So, I am checking to see if anyone can tell me why the movie plays out of sync with its own audio. This is such a fundamental flaw that I must be misunderstanding something here.

(The settings of my movie were correct in Dorico.)

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Are Dorico and the video running at the same sample rate?

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You are absolutely right.

The sample rate of the QuickTime video was not the same as my playback system! My mistake. Thank you.

In Pro Tools, I never have to check the sample rate of the video since Pro Tools always plays the video at the correct speed. I wasn’t aware that the sample rate of the QuickTime needed to match the playback device set in Dorico, as the audio from the video was 100% correct when played back in Dorico 6.1.