Lock Audio Clip At Playhead Sometimes Behavior

Lock Audio Clip at Playhead seems to lock it to a point on the timeline. Sometimes. If I lock a clip and then delete an earlier clip, a short (less than 5 sec.) clip stays locked to the timeline even though the video clip it is related to moves. Long (more than 10 sec.) clips, OTOH, move with the related audio. So do clips related to transitions such as Fade Out and Scale Down. What I want to do is lock the audio clip to a specific video clip. And it would be best if that were a default. What to do?

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? about "Lock Audio Clip at Playhead"

I've always thought that the purpose of this feature is to make sure that audio and video clips that need to stay synced together in fact do.
Well, I just added a short video clip to my timeline--in the middle of the movie--and it moved all the video clips to the right a bit, as it should--but not the audio clips, which were locked to their respective video!
How could this happen?

Hi folks.
Since we last posted, I have discovered something new about the misbehaving audio lock. Happily, I learned that it does work for me - most of the time. I can select the audio, choose "Lock..." and if I get a yellow pushpin on both the video and audio tracks, then they are properly locked together.
Here's the catch. Sometimes I select the audio, choose "Lock..." and the yellow pushpin only appears on the video track. In that case, they are not locked, and adding video before that pin will lose the sync with the improperly locked audio track. Also, I haven't found a way to get that single pushpin to go away. I can place the playhead there and choose "Lock..." again, but that has no effect (no toggle off and on). I can select a new place in the same audio clip and choose "Lock..." but the pin doesn't move. The only workaround I have found is to move a bit past the defective pin, do a "Split video at playhead" to create a new video track, and then select a spot in the audio clip to lock with the new video clip. The new clip will get the correct double pushpins, and the audio is really locked.
Here is a screen shot of this behavior. Notice that I have several locked audio clips, and I have not placed the locks on the first frame of the video clips. You can see a defective single pushpin on the video associated with audio clip #23. I couldn't remove that pin, so I split the video clip and was able to lock down audio clip #24. (Note: the gaps in the video are intentional - when I had to change tapes. I'll fill them in with some photos, so I have to make sure that I won't lose sync.)
What do you think about that?
Regards.

How do I lock Audio clip at playhead in iMovie

Hi,
I have been using iMovie HD for years. Great program. Finally had to move on to iMovie 10. What a total disaster that is. I have a myriad of issues with it, as does everyone else, but right now I am trying to figure out how to lock an audio clip at the playhead, as one essentially needs to be able to do for even pretty simple home movie edits. Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer? Why do I get the feeling that what used to be a brilliant and intuitive piece of software has been completely eviscerated to the point of uselessness?
Any ideas? Thanks
Richard

Richard Weston-Smith1 wrote:
Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer?
No, it's not been removed. You just need to drag your audio clip to the right place.
In your case, you want to drag it directly to the timeline and not to the background music well below the timeline.
Some more information here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov91a895a64
Matt

Is there a ceiling on # of locked audio clips?

When my current iMovie project went all hiccup and drag, I tried many of the tips suggested here including a mega-dose of maintentance -- repair permissions, CacheOutX, etc.
Nothing worked until I began deleting zeroed-out extracted audio. That restored clean sound. But the video was still twitchy. Next I installed the recent PB graphics update. That appeared to slightly improve video (but I may have imagined it).
Finally, I cleared the 85 sound effects locked to still photos. That restored smooth video.
So here's the question: I had tested the sound effect (same one, a camera click) on several video stills before locking in 85, and the tests showed no hint of trouble. So was the problem the clip itself -- downloaded free from an Internet sound site -- or the sheer volume? Is there a limit on the number of audio locks iMovie will accept?

Hi, Bengt --
The project is on the internal HD and backed up on externals. Since I'm relatively new to this, I've got to ask: What would be the benefit of disconnecting the externals? Is there some connection between those and the locked audio clips which apparently caused the problem?
I added the externals after the project corrupted, and was able to clean it up with them attached. What am I missing? Probably a whole lot.
Thanks,
Jack

Locking Audio Clips etc

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I have this feeling that I'm close to what I want to do, but I'm missing something as it's not quite working as I hoped it would.
Here's what I want to be able to do:
The scenario: I'm interviewing someone about, for example, their classic Harley Davidson Motorbike and during the interview I want the speech to remain throughout the whole movie, but I want to be able to "cut away" to shots of the bike, then come back to the person speaking at the exact right moment using editing in iMovie. How would I do this?
Thanks

1. Extract the Audio from the the video clip (Advanced/Extract Audio). You will then have an audio clip on the audio line right below your video clip. Leave it there. The original audio in your video clip will be muted. You will be using the extracted audio clip for your audio.
2. Split the video clip at the point where you want to insert the photo.
3. Insert the photo at the point of the split.
4. Subtract (trim back) a time equal to the duration of your photo from the front portion of the split clip following the photo. (You will need first to turn off Show Clip Volume Levels from the View menu.) Your photo is being substituted in the place of that portion of the video that you are trimming back.
The above procedure will give you a continuous, uninterrupted, voice over for all of the photos that you insert. If you don't want a voice over while the photo is displayed, then just split the video clip without extracting the audio, insert the photo, and after the photo is displayed the the video and the voice will pick up where it left off.

How to cut unwanted section of audio clip in iMovie 09.

I had some problem removing section of audio clip that are too long for the movie. I finally found out how to do it. Here's how. Hope this will help others.
1.Using the playhead, find the area in which you want to cut the audio and place the playhead there.
2.Click on Edit - Split Selected Audio Clip at Playhead. This will automatically split the audio clip into two separate clips. Continue to do this until you create a segment that you wish to use.
3.Delete the extraneous segments by clicking on them and pressing delete.

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Locking video clip to audio track?

I have a bunch of video clips in my sequence. A couple of the clips I want at certain points of the audio track and I dont want them to move but when I ripple delete video clips in fron of them it shifts the clips back (moving them away from the specific spot on the audio track). Is there a way to lock a video clip to a certain part of the audio?
I tried "grouping" the video clip and the audio but that doesn't seem to work as the video clips still move.

You can't lock a clip, only a track. Move the desired clips to a higher track and lock that.

Extracted audio not locking onto clips!! -URGENT!

I have a film... about 23 minutes in length.
Throughout the film there are many cuts back and forth between two interviews.
I edited the whole thing (no transitions/titles/black space inbetween yet)... and extracted the audio. I want to voiceover the audio while there are images/video shown.
Now I find that...(now the audio is extracted), I cannot move around the clips.. without the audio becoming un-synched with the visual interviews...
Any suggestions?
P.S. I am quite desparate because I have a public showing of the film in just a couple days!!!
Thanks.

Move the audio clip to the place on the timeline where you want it to start. Go to Advanced menu and click 'Lock Audio to Timeline'.

Move Timeline Playhead to next Video Clip - Ignoring Audio Clips?

I'm colour correcting and want to move the playhead quickly to each video clip.
I wondered if there's any way to get the playhead to ignore audio clips and simply jump to the next video clip?

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+(I think it's my age)!!!+
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Audio clip Strange Behavior

Hi
I have noticed that if I drop an audio clip (stereo mp3 for example) onto an empty stereo audio track , the following happens.
If the track is expanded and Show track volume or Show track Keyframes are selected, I can not move or edit the clip, it's frozen (I can select and clear it)
If I just collapse the track, the clip become active and I can move and edit the clip.
If I expand the track and set to, Hide keyframes, show clip Volume or show clip keyframes, again the clip is active.
Why only, when the track is expanded and track volume or track keyframes are selected is the clip frozen?
Thanks for any advice.
Gary

Hi Guys
Thanks, that all makes sense now.
Cheers
Gary

Lock audio to clip

Can I reattach an audio clip to a video clip? The last IMOVIE I used on a regular basis (6.0) had this function. Cant figure out how to move a clip with the new audio with it.
thanks in advance for any help.

Drag the audio file from the media browser and drop it on the frame of video where you want it to be attached.
If you have background video, you can drag it and pin it to a frame as well, but I find it easiest to add audio as "ribbons" by dropping on a frame.
Good video here that explains how audio works in iMovie.

When I move video clip, my audio clips (unlinked) split ??

I have separate video and audio clips on the timeline (they are not linked). When I try to move a video clip (or multiple clips at one time), before I let go of the mouse, the audio clip(s) below the video split, so that they are before and after the moved video clip. They are not linked together. How do I move a video clip without affecting anything else?
Thanks.

This might be helpful from some of my old notes. The ripple behavior can be overcome by the use of the CTRL
button. However it depends on whether you press CTRL before or after you start moving the clip. When moving clips
around in the timeline there are 4 basic types of movement Lift, Extract, Insert and Overlay:
The first two, Lift and Extract have to do with how the clip is moved OUT of it's current position. To see what I
mean, hover your mouse over a clip in the timeline, then press and release the CTRL key while watching the status
text string in the lower left of the application window, you'll see that holding CTRL before clicking and dragging
triggers the extract behavior (which tells the timeline that there is a gap being created that should be closed)
but clicking and dragging with no CTRL modifier allows the Lift behavior (which tells the TL to ignore the gap)
The second two, Insert and Overlay have to do with how the clip is placed IN to it's new position, that is,
whether it is Overlaid over exisitng footage without any ripple movement or Inserted within the existing footage,
causing any following media (including that on other tracks) to be rippled forward.
Since there is no way to lock down tracks in PE, you must always be mindful of what this default rippling behavior
is doing to overlapping media on other tracks.

How do I position cropped audio clips?

I have placed a bunch of photos in an iMovie project to create a slideshow with music. I am trying to place MP3 songs in various positions during the slideshow I'm trying to create. I understand that I have to use the crop markers to choose the portions of the audio clips I want to use. But I can't figure out how I then place the shortened audio clips in the exact position in the slideshow that I want.
I cropped the beginning of a song in the timeline viewer, but then I can't figure out how to move the cropped song to the very beginning of the slideshow.
I've never used iMovie before and I am a complete novice. So, please keep this in mind when giving me instructions...
Thanks,
Bill

This is how my students do it. Drag or import the song to the empty track under where your pictures are on the time line. My students like to crop on the timeline so they slect the music by clicking on it and it turns dark purple. Move the coursor to where you want to make the cut and type "Apple-T" (at the same time). This wil place a cut on the music track. Now place a cut where at the other end of where you want the music to end. Finally click on the unused track to make the music track go back to the lighter color. and click on the piece you want to delete. It will turn dark again and type "Apple-X" and it will delete.
Grab your music track with the mouse and drag it to where you want it. Lock it by placing you coursor on the music track and the video clip, click the music track to darken it and go to the advanced pull down and select "lock clip at playhead". If you did it right 2 tiny thumbtacks will appear.
This is just one way to do it.

How can I lock video clips to the timeline?

Hello Apple discussion.
I know that holding down the command key disable ripping when triming.
But that doesn't work when deleting clips. It would be useful to lock videoclips to the timeline, so they keep their position.
Lock audio to playhead doesn't help the situation.
Thank you for your time
Attila

You cannot lock a video clip to the timeline. The program is designed so that when you delete a video clip, the other clips slide over to fill the gap. Otherwise you would have holes all over your project, or have to manually move them over. You would want to lock the audio clips to the non-deleted video clips, so that the audio slides over with them.
If you want to preserve the gap left by a deleted video clip, first insert in front of it a black clip of the same exact duration, and then delete the video clip. The black clip would hold all of the other clips in position, but leave you with a black hole to fill or delete. To make a black clip, separate two video clips on the timeline, and control-click on the empty space. In the resulting drop down menu, select Convert Empty Space to Clip. Then control-click on the black clip and in the resulting window adjust the time duration by overwriting the values in the time box and then clicking the Set button.

FCP Audio Clips in Soundtrack Pro - Marking the Start & End Points

When I double click on an audio clip that I've sent from FCP into Soundtrack Pro I seem to open up the entire media file.
How do I lock off or at least mark the clip start & end?
I don't see any markers that tell me which part of the clip is actually used in the imported FCP sequence.
I only want to make (non-destructive) changes to the clip.
I don't want to alter the original media file.
And I just want to work on the part that's used in the FCP sequence.
It makes sense that there's a way to show the start & end points of the clip but I'm just not seeing it.

I am a bit of a newb here, so pardon if my explanation is a little unpolished, but I have been working on some of my projects like you are and this is what i figured out. I select my sequence in FCP and send to stp as a multitrack project. The whole audio timeline shows up just as it looks in fcp, and the video track shows as one large clip that is made up of all my cuts put together. Now, my audio tracks are all on one line, and i can see all the clips with their cuts on the sequence. I click the first one and open it up to work on in the waveform editor. At that point i see the entire audio clip, including the part before and after my cut that i am using in my sequence, but i also see, up near the playhead, gray markers that show the actual part of the clip i am using in my edit. It is easest to hit shift-z to look at the entire clip on screen, and then find the grey markers. Also, if you play audio before the in marker, you will hear it but you will see that the video is not playing anything, then once you enter into the in-out section the video will play along, and when you pass the out marker the video freezes as the audio keeps playing. Hope this helps.

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