Video and Audio Drift

Question

I was wondering, how much does recorded audio and video drift from their actual recording time usually? (So like, perhaps a frame is dropped or something) I'm recording both separately (into unsigned 8 bit PCM (44100 Hz) and raw image data files) and I was wondering how much I can expect each to drift.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

With good hardware and software you can expect no drift at all. Dropped frames are only an artifact of processing lags.