Add ability to fix audio desync through the editor#1274

Its not uncommon for a clip I recorded via medal to have the audio slightly off sync. This is the most extreme example: https://medal.tv/games/garrys-mod/clips/9k8FuifquknaL/d1337h3854Ft?invite=cr-MSxLbXEsMzM3NDE1LA
Thankfully, its rarely ever that bad. But its still kind of jarring even when more subtle.
Now one solution is to fix the recorder. But I think that it might be easier (and less hair pulling for the devs) to add a feature where the audio on a track can have a negative or positive offset applied to it. (And also, fixing the problem with the recorder wont fix clips that alreadly have the problem)
Im not good at explaining things, so i apoligize if my explanation of the requested feature didnt make much sence,.

I understand what you are asking for, I’ll see if this is something we can get in the editor

We haven’t had time to get to this, but hopefully the recorder has been more performant for you

The recorder has been extremely unreliable when it comes to audio synchronization. I’ve had some otherwise excellent cilps ruined by a quite large delay.

Being able to offset the audio within the medal editor would turn this from a deal breaker into a slight annoyance.

Confirming this also happens when importing perfectly synced videos. Seems to be something in the final processing that makes this happen.

It is still happening to me too.
All clips of today are out of sync.
I stoped using medal almost a year ago because of this…. I thought it would be fixed by now.
I guess I’ll wait another year?

are we still waiting??

@Awesomebs Very interesting. Thanks for the insight.

Just to be super clear with your issue - it’s only happening in the editor correct? The clips play find everywhere else?

Do you have separate game tracks on or off?

I have no idea about separate game tracks, and I’m at work so I can’t check. I haven’t messed with many settings at all though so it is likely in the default state.

From my memory the clips would have the audio desync permanently. So editing and uploading, the audio would remain delayed.

Hey all, someone reached out and explained that for them, the desync happens on render, but it’s fine until they go to upload or save the project.

Can anyone confirm if the behavior is different for them? I.E. Is it desynced when you are watching it in the editor BEFORE saving it or uploading it?

@Brandon i just got this issue for the first time today as the audio was desynced before saving the project and after saving the project it was still desynced

Same issue for me. When I record the clips the sound is delayed by 1-2 seconds. The audio is desynced before editing.

It’s already desynced in the preview but seriously just add a detach audio feature so you can manually fix it by yourself in the meantime

If you are experiencing desync issues on the video file directly, ( before any edits, and even when playing the clip outside of medal) can you switch to the Early Access build and check if this is still happening there?

click on the question mark ? bottom left, then on the Go to Early Access button.

hey, i tried what you suggested with the early access build and it solved the problem for me. ty