Hi, bit of a strange Avid problem I've not seen before...
Quick background; we just had our SAN upgraded and after some picture lag issues it's now working. The eventual problem was that the replacement hard drives weren't enterprise grade, so have now been replaced.
One problem remains - it seems that on ingesting DV cam tapes (to DV 420 MXF) occasionally we have stuttery audio. It's pretty infrequent and sporadic, and seems to occur on a number of ingest suites and using different tape decks. The weird thing is that the picture is fine with no lag. The audio lag appears on exported video too, so it isn't just a playback problem.
The whole system is fine with tapeless HD workflow and all suites will play back multiple streams of DNXHD ingests.
I just wonder if there's any setting within Avid that can improve quality of audio capture or audio buffering.
Cheers