OK. My problem appeared again and I attached two screen prints of the same project.
It seems like the trigger for this is when I select several video clips and move and insert them somewhere upstream. Also, it seems that the problem is more likely when I've used overlapped transitions for the video clips. Everything looks normal in the display on my monitor, that is the linked audio of each video appears correctly under it's video clip. I continue doing more editing, and at some point I start to notice some odd preview playback. When the wrong audio is playing with its video, espcially when it starts before the video does, I know it's that same problem again. Sometimes I try to unlink and move the audio down to another track, save, then move it back and relink to recover from that problem. If it does not solve it, I must get out of PD and start it and open the project again. Sometimes that takes care of it.
BUT, if not, I open up the project to see that a huge portion, if not all, of the linked audio clips have moved up and down the track. Some displaced, others overlapped, and even some on top of each other. I think I've even lost audio clips and have to bring another copy back from the library.
In the one attached screen capture, it shows that the last half of the project had all the linked audios displaced from the associated linked videos. In the other attachment I zoomed in on part of that project where three audio clips would have been overlapped. (But this time I had unlinked and moved the center audio clip down to the next track before closing the project. ) Then I closed PD, restarted it, and opened up the same project. You can see that the center audio clip of the three would have overlapped the other two if I had left all three audios on the same track assigned to the video clips. Note also, that the other two audio clips are not anywhere near their own video clips - how could that be?
To recover the project from this point, I have to unlink each video clip, individually drag each of the audios back to their proper places, and relink them again. And, of course, I have to remove the overlap transitions because doing one messes up all the adjacent linked pairs down stream. (How can I replace a overlapped transition when others adjacent down stream already have transtitions? When I do it, the audio gets displaced again unless I remove all the carefully placed transtitions first.) It is so irritating that a linked video-audio pair still move relative to each other in this situation - I keep pointing out the there has to be a "hard link" option as I believe all are only soft links in PD.
I still think this is a bug and I started being plagued with this in PD10. It caused my huge problems in this 12-DVD project of an ancestral trip to Germany. 7000 photos, numerous video clips, and a large part of 35 hours of separate sound recordings tour guides. I spent many days reworking scrambled video-audio pairs, each probably re-repaired several times.
Any suggestions? Please!
Bill
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Bill Seifert
HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2022
8 core
AMD Radeon
Windows 11, 16 GB RAM