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Dealing with Audio Video Sync Offsets
Audio/video sync is one of the most important things to maintain in any edited program.
However, there are times when you may want to override the sync relationship of a clip’s audio
and video to make a particular edit, so moving a clip’s audio and video out of sync is allowed.
If you disable Linked Selection and then move the audio or video of a clip independently of its
linked video or audio counterpart, you’ll see red “out-of-sync” indicators at the left of each clip’s
name bar, that displays the timecode offset by which the audio and video of that clip are out of
sync. In the following example, the audio and video of a clip have been moved out of sync by
Option-clicking the video and dragging it to the left.
Sync markers on a clip with audio and video out of sync
If you’ve moved the audio and video of a clip out of sync with one another, there’s a really easy
way of getting them back into sync, by right-clicking the red out-of-sync indicator of any clip and
choosing one of the available commands:
 Slip into place: Slips the content of the selected clip, without moving the clip, so that it’s
in sync with the other items that are linked to that clip.
 Move into place: Moves the selected clip so that it’s in sync with the other items that
are linked to that clip.
 Slip others into place: Slips the content of all other items that are linked to the selected
clip, without moving them, so that all linked items are in sync.
 Move others into place: Moves all other items that are linked to the selected clip so
that all linked items are in sync.
Commands in the contextual menu of sync tooltips
Manually Unlinking and Relinking Audio and Video
By default, clips that you import into DaVinci Resolve have their video and audio linked
together, which makes it easy to maintain the relationship and sync of the audio and video
components of a clip while you’re editing. However, there are many reasons you might want to
override this automatic relationship, either breaking the A/V linking of a clip’s audio and video
completely, or breaking it and relinking in a different way, or to different clips.
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