Soundtrack Pro: Moving Mulitple "locked" style Clips at once.

Hi Guys, Thanks very much for your help with previous problems by the way.
I was wandering if it was possible to select multiple clips on multiple channels and move them all in bulk up the timeline? for instance, If I need to drop in a new interview half way through my podcast that was not expected, I dont wan't to have to move everything individually and lose the edit points and levels etc?
I do hope this is possible???
Cheers,
Dave.

Use the Forward Select tool.
You can mark all clips that are in your timeline from that point on and move them together.

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Melodrama731 wrote:
... Pharrell Williams happy video and I'm trying to edit it. The thing is that there are places where we sing and we want the song to match our lips so how can I lock the clip in place?..
when it comes to 're-edit' things.. such as:
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"..This is a music video project so syncing it up is important and time consuming.." ..Absolutely!
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I too am struggling in planning finishing a production that I am working on. I originally posted in a thread which may broaden this discussion a bit.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6016983#6016983
I am the producer/editor and composer, I hire out camera work and direct the shoots and do preproduction planning. I also conduct interviews, work with my client who is the writer and lead investigator in an underwater archaeology project. We do field work including underwater video, surface operations video and interviews based on the objectives of the script outline.
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http://www.ruairirobinson.com/main.htm
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http://www.alonelysky.com/ALSSDTRAILER.htm
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