Clips won't stay where I put them!

I am building an informational video with some animated sequences and I am recording my voice over the video. At times, I want to edit/replace clips that occur early in the timeline with new clips without disturbing the positions of clips to the right on the timeline. As I begin to add, remove or change earlier clips, all the other clips to the right will shift back and forth becoming unsynced with the audio and ruin a lot of hard work.

Hi HB
Yes thats the way it works. If You exchange a clip You have to replace it with
one with exactly the same no: of min.sec.frames or everything goes bananas.
If You need to work in that order You probably should take a look at FinalCut
Express or Pro - and consider the cost.
In FCE/P You can place video and sound to a specific time place in Your project.
In iMovie this is really hard and disipline demanding.
Locking video to time isn't something existing in iMovie yet - may be never.
Yours Bengt W

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