Placing video on a music track

I'm creating a music video to my own musical recording. I've placed video satisfactorily for the first 30 seconds. I then decided to place some video further down in the song, but when I bring it to the music track it automatically moves up against the first video piece. Can't I place this video anywhere in the music track I wish without having to build the video exactly in linear order through the track? Thanks for help.

No you can't, you have to fill the 'gaps' with something - for instance it can be a black background from "Backgrounds and maps" if you just want to see a blank screen.
Geoff.

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Hello chaps.
I'm creating a family skiing video, editing it tightly to a music track - someone falling over hits the beat, etc. You know the drill.
I've run into one problem and I'm trying to work out if I'm missing something obvious, or whether it is a case of can't do that:
What I would like to do.
Rather that simply adding video sequentially from the beginning, there are certain clips that I know will fit well towards the end of the song. I'd like to place them there now. Continually editing from the front tends to lead to me using the best material at the beginning. Yes, I know I'm weak, but I'd like to place key anchor clips in first and then work around them with what's left.
The problem
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What I've tried.
I've tried adding a single black clip that lasts the length of the track, but what I'd then like to do is be able to paste a clip to the playhead and have it replace that portion of the black clip. I can't quite work out how to do that, or if it is the correct approach. Placing the clip as a cut-away almosts works, but having the entire movie comprising cutaways is clearly silly.
Am I missing something?
Does anyone have any advice as to a better or correct approach?

Bengt mentioned using dummy black photos (clips) as placeholders. Another option is to use the templates that are used in Trailers. These are located in the Map, Background & Animatic Browser (the last browser on the far right next to the Transition Browser). Apple calls these templates (or placeholders) "Animatics".
The animatics can be placed along the timeline with varying durations. Later, when adding an actual clip, drag and drop it directly onto one of the animatics. Select Replace from the pop-up menu. If the duration of the actual clip differs from the animatic, the clip's duration will over-ride the animatic's duration. So, it will be a little tricky lining it all up.
I haven't tried this personally, but it may work better than using Cutaways, but could be pretty tedious.
Bengt's assumption regarding Final Cut Pro X is correct - it will handle this type of thing easily. As I understand it, you can insert an audio track, then position video in appropriate places along the timeline without gaps closing up.
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Nothing did go wrong, but I'd have it in case anything DID go wrong. That file holds ratings, playcounts, Date Added, and other metadata.
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I would suggest that you use iMovie or a similar video editing program to add a music track to your video:
iMovie (2013): Add audio and music
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14708
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Can I make a bin of pre-cut music music tracks?

I am making a little edit. I am an avid/fcp editor.
At the moment I am using imovie.
I want to lay downmy music tracks first. Can I make a bin to pull from where I have pre-edited the tracks?
PLEASE say yes...
On fcp I would precut all my music choices, then lasso them all and move them around so easily....
imovie seems incredibly cumbersome to do this- dragging tracks only one at a time... and even then. can I insert them cleanly adter one tracks is over and just "push down" what else is in the cut??
PLEASE help!
Susan

to answer your question, we have to discuss different 'levels':
• sure, you can use the audio-tool of the iLife suite, Garageband, to pre-edit audio clips; 'share' it, and - and that is a concept of iLife-apps - you have access to those audio clips in any othe iLife-app, here: iMovie/Music
• no tracks.
iMovie (and its bigger brother FCPX) don't have 'tracks' anymore. Totally diff. concept: the storyline. Idea behind that: you lay out a single 'Ariadne's thread'. You are allowed to 'dock' clips (audio/video/stills/graphics) along that main line. Now, moving parts of the main storyline moves those accompanied parts too (=magnetic timeline).
in FCPX this storyline could be music only! (not so in iMovie)
• a workaround: add 'any' video clip to your Project (or just a colored background). now, you can drag your music to that 'main' clip and replace parts of it
• no tracks, pt II
EditMom wrote:
… can I insert them cleanly adter one tracks is over and just "push down" what else is in the cut??
you can add as many audio-clips as you want to the main storyline.
moving a clip, pushes others 'away'.
but: no tracks, so what do you mean by 'push down'? look …:
the first music clip is connected to the first video clip. 2nd one to 2nd videoclip.
dragging the 2nd video to a diff. position in the timeline would move the 2nd music too.
very handy in case of sound-effects:
the first clip has 3 sfx; moving that first video moves ALL connected clips too (=magnetic). I don't have to care for any tracks, don't have to 'compound' clips - all connected, just drag to create your 'story'.-
• iMovie limitations: iM is meant for simple consumer task: import from camera, organizing material, simple edit, add music/narration, perhaps a title, "A Day In The Zoo" done
if you own legacy FC/pro, I would consider using that - espescially, if you're 'thinking in tracks' - no tracks, no layers, no 'free floating clip somewhere in time' with these tools

Editing Music Tracks

Hello
I have just starting to play with fcp x. As a long time broadcast editor I thought it was about time to learn it.
I have done a short showreel for a friend which is a great way to learn! I put some pictures down in story order and then put a track of music down to cut too.
I needed to edit the music down to length, but I could find no way to add an in point or out point to the music track, all it did was add the in points to the video (and its audio) track above. In the end I used the razor blade and cut the music where I wanted and then dragged it back to make the edit. Also I could not get the music track into trim mode.. Is this the only way to edit music tracks? Any info would be great.
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No need to use the blade tool. Just trim the audio clip by dragging the edge of the clip. With snapping turned on, it will be easy to align the end points.

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