I think I might be going crazy. After the added audio sync in timeline, I've been creating scenes as one single, long animation which I plop the audio clip in and then get to work. The scrubbing is awesome because I can very accurately scrub to various audio beats in songs and add animation accordingly.
I've been working on finishing up my scene for elf month and as I neared the end, I decided to check it out in VR to see how it was coming along. Much to my disappointment, I found the audio to not be synced as it was in desktop mode. After trying all of the usual suspects, I was able to reproduce the same audio sync problem on desktop. It seems when I start the animation with a trigger (the button has a stop and reset action for timeline, then a start animation (name) action, and nothing else.
When I play the animation this way, the audio is not synced to the work I animated. If I stop the animation in timeline, scrub back to the parts I can spot that are not synchronized, and play again, the audio is suddenly synchronized again. It's as if once you start scrubbing, the audio is not syncronized to the same frames as when you start it with a trigger.
What's strange is that I've not noticed this before working on this scene. I think the only major thing I am doing different with audio in this scene I that I have it starting about 15-20 seconds after the animation start, rather than the very first trigger at the beginning of the scene. Could this maybe impact it? I've added a short clip below so you can see what I mean (hopefully without spoiling the scene too much!) Don't forget to click the audio button for redgifs!
The first playthrough is starting the animation with a trigger, then I scrub back and start the animation again. The elf is giving Attom a handjob here, and if you listen to the beats of the music, there are two bass thumps which are supposed to be timed with two downward motions of the elf's hand. In the first clip, these are not timed, but they
are timed after I stop, scrub back, and start again. What gives?
Any help would be appreciated it!