Edit Frame Accurate To Music?

I have a beginner's question, since I've never used Final Cut Express before. Is it possible to do totally frame accurate editing, so that you can edit video perfectly in-time with music? Can you zoom into the video timeline and see each individual frame, and move an edit point to line up with a beat?

Hi Ian, I use the same technique as Michel and it works pretty well.
You don't have to hit m at every beat, but having a regular and continuos set of markers in a section of audio, helps you to decide later which marker to use to sync your video. Obviously, I use markers on the audio clip, not on the timeline, so they are bound to it.
About precision: it's possible to go out of sync, but it's easy enough to be precise if you listen your music carefully. I guess another factor for precision may be the Mac responsivness: faster systems allow to be more precise than slower ones (I saw a big improvement moving from older Macs to my new MacBook Pro).
In any case I agree with you: too many cuts may become boring or distracting. In fact, I sometimes use this technique to conclude a movie with a lively rithmic music: then I sync a selection of stills and/or short clips to the music just before the movie end. At most one minute, usually no more than that.
Piero

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i exported a .mov from the fcp project and layed it over the premier project and the whole thing is off. the first frame doesn't even match.
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