Can't Move Clips

I have a sequence with 9 Audio and 8 video lines. When I get past the 5th line, I'm unable to shift the clips to sync them. I've had this problem in previous versions and I don't know how to fix it. I can only move the clip when the entire sequence is in view and fully zoomed out. Please help, this is slow down progress.

Thanks for the tip. I restarted my machine and I'm not experiencing the problem anymore, though it's possible that the situation you described was my problem. (Odd, though, that I've been using Final Cut Pro for several years and never run into the issue before tonight...oh well. Thanks anyway!)

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the clip, but when I play the movie, the clip does not play - I
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Beth

OK - I realize now that I have to actually publish the movie
to have the clip play, whether by dragging an instance onto the
timeline or loading it via AS.
Now I have another issue. I'm sorry if these are stupid
questions, but I have a hard time finding things in the help file -
maybe I'm too much of a new Flash user to understand what to look
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Anyway, when I play the movie, I have three problems:
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issue the play() command until the middle of the movie. I do the
attachMovie in the first frame so that it has loaded by the time I
want to play it, but it starts playing right away even though I
don't tell it to play.
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sized to take up the whole stage) but can't seem to move it no
matter what values I plug into the _x and _y properties.
3) the clip loops continuously. I only want it to play once
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mc1 = this.createEmptyMovieClip("DR1",
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Can't move clips into Timeline

I've just installed Premiere CC onto my macbook pro
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Changed title to be more descriptive. Message was edited by: Kevin Monahan

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I am using iMovie 10.0.7 on a 1-week old iMac 27" running Yosemite 10.10.2. I migrated from iMovie 9 on a 2008 iMac running Snow Leopard and updated the libraries and events, etc.
I have two external drives connected via USB. I want to move / consolidate the library and clips from one of the external drives to the new iMac's 3TB fusion drive. This is to make room on the external drive to run Time Machine backups.
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Ahh, Ok. I actually had to go to Lynda.com to watch a training video of this highly bassackwards maneuver, but now I have it. In other words, while the intuitive thing is to make a new event to hold the clip you want and then open the old event and drag the clip into it's new event, the only way to accomplish this maneuver is to NOT create a new event, but rather, go to the clip AFTER the one you want to move, select it and then Right-Click on it and select SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP (or go to FILE>SPLIT EVENT BEFORE SELECTED CLIP). Then you wait a few seconds while the program thinks a bit (no feedback it is doing this - just a pause) and then it automatically creates a new event with the clip you wanted. Now just double-click the new event and name it something meaningful.
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I am attempting to click on a clip and move it. I get a "can't do" icon (circle with a slash) and a white rectangular box icon over the clip. And I seem to be unable to move any clip on the timeline now. I have tried exiting and restarting but with no results.
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As Jon has told you, you CAN NOT adjust video in less than a 1 frame increment. And I honestly doubt that even if you could, that you'd see the difference in the audio synch. In the good old days of film editing, it was only possible to adjust the audio synch for 35mm within a 1/4 of a frame (as each frame has 4 perforations) and 16mm within a frame (as each frame has 1 perf).
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Thanks for the reply,
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dave wrote:
> When someone rolls over a button, I would like it to
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> I place the movie clip on the rollover state though it
is not working.
>
> 1. Am I doing this right?
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