SUPERBUG? Transitions / Unbalanced Between Clips & Unsync Audio HELP! 2006

I have been able to reproduce this SUPERBUG every time.
I have split the audio track from the video clips to solve the bugs in iMovie that many have listed here in the forums. Also, it was a live music performance that I added other clips in the middle to compensate for shakey camera and bad shots.
All was fine till I started adding a 'simple' "Cross Dissolve" transition.
Both clips in the transition would not be evenly balanced in the cross dissolve, and would un-sync the audio if it was locked in place or not.
If you center the play head in the middle of the croos dissolve and delete it, you can see how much it is off from where the clips join.
This is the WORST case scenerio, since the only way to use transitions would be to place them, and the re align the live video with the audio clips, and then there is blank black clips EVERYWHERE!
My last problem was the new Slick 8 Plug-In Stabilizer which still doesn't work in iMovie 6 ( Gee Three says it's on the way ) ... and now this?
Who is programming at Apple these days?
They better get some real talent there quick .. I'm furious.
Has anyone else figure this out .. or is there some trick I don't get?
Help

"..Both clips in the transition would not be evenly balanced in the cross dissolve, and would un-sync the audio if it was locked in place or not.."
Applying any transition in iMovie (..except 'Overlap'..) will "un-sync the audio", because any transition lays the tail of the first clip OVER the head of the following clip to merge them both, one into the other. This shortens the overall running time of the two clips - and anything else which follows - by the total duration of the transition.
It's always best to practise with a few clips, or another "test" project, first ..just to see what the effects will be before starting a major project, and then you can test the effect of adding a transition. Same with doing a bit of woodwork, or stain removal: it's always best to do a test first, and see what the result is ..then you know how to apply that to the 'real thing'.
All that you have to do is to allow some extra length to the tail of the first clip, and to the head of the following clip, to match the duration of the transition you want to use. This is easy to do if you're dropping in a "cutaway" shot to replace some shaky footage, for example.
So if you want to use a one second Cross Dissolve, say, (..that's 30 frames in NTSC American video, or 25 frames in European PAL video..) then leave an extra 30 frames (..25 frames for PAL..) at the end of the first clip, and an extra 30 (.. or 25..) frames at the head of the next clip, for this second to be "eaten away" by the transition. Your underlying music will then still be in sync after the transition has been applied.
"..Who is programming at Apple these days?.." ..This is the way that iMovie has worked since Version 1. It isn't a "bug", but simply the way that editing works in this easy-to-use "consumer" (..i.e; amateur..) editing program.
"..the clips that where split EXACTLY at the playhead ( and audio extracted from the video ) return as one frame away from each other.." ..If you do a few tests, you'll see what happens to the frame count where clips are split and re-joined. I've an NTSC project here (..I'm in the UK and usually work in PAL..) which is a single clip with a total running time of 27:10. If I split the single clip at 02:00 ..i.e; exactly 2 seconds.. and the second clip lasts 25:10, then when I recombine them the total running time becomes, once again, 27:10. If I split them at 01:29, then the second clip becomes 25:11 long, and if I delete the split, they revert to a single clip of 27:10 ..i.e; no frames lost.
However, American (NTSC) video is slightly odd in that its real frame rate is 29.97 frames per second, so every minute or two a couple of "imaginary" frames are lost - not really lost, but the frame count simply jumps - to try to "round things up" to 30 frames per second again. This is called "drop frame time code". No frames are actually dropped ..the numbers are just "rounded up" now and again.
So if your frame count seems slightly off ..don't worry about it.
This is the way that video editing works.
In the "professional" editing programs (Final Cut Express and Pro), the program tries to find extra frames on the ends, or beginnings, of clips, so that those excess frames can be "eaten up" by transitions, and total clip length remains the same. But that relies upon more footage being available than you're actually working with ..so someone new to those programs might ask "Why do I have to import more footage than I need?"
Just practise with it a bit, and you'll soon see that it works OK ..just leave extra frames on the ends of clips to allow for the footage which gets used up in the Cross Dissolves, or whichever transitions you use.

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