Locking clips to audio segments

Hey my friend and I are making a music video and we're wondering how to lock a clip to a segment of audio. Cause we have the video and music synced but then if we add a clip or delete a clip, the whole video is out of sync. Is there a way to lock clips to audio segments with iMovie? Thanks in advance!
Also on some clips we set the volume to zero but when we play the movie, the sound from the clip plays. We use the % indicator on the bottom left of the window and set it to zero but it still plays sound.

Thanks! We saw the lock clip to audio but it was grayed out so we didn't try it again.
Almost everything on the Mac works like this:
1. Select something.
2. Do something with it.
In iMovie we must select a clip — click on it — before we can act on it. Menu commands that act on clips are disabled — grayed out — when no clip is selected.
Karl

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**! I've got to go final cut express to do this? Seems ridiculous...
from your point of view...
editing 'videos' is no beginners task..
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