Adding a freeze frame In iMovie moves all my audio clips around

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Adding a freeze frame In iMovie moves all my audio clips around

Hi doing a video for work demonstrating some software I've recorded the video portion as a single video clip and am now trying to attach various audio commentary clips to it. That's all working. What isn't working is that if I need to insert a freeze frame to allow for some discussion before continuing on, iMovie goes and moves ALL of the prior audio clips around. Even if they're no-where near the point where I'm inserting the freeze frame.

It's driving me crazy because I then have to go all the way back to the beginning and re-position every single audio clip.

Why is it doing this?

Posted on Oct 6, 2020 11:23 PM

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Rich839

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Oct 7, 2020 8:39 AM in response to drekka

Adding to my previous post, it might be a corrupt preference causing the clips to be moved out of sequence. Try deleting preferences. To do that, open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and select to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. See if that fixes it.

Also, you might try doing an Edit/Select All, Edit/Copy, of your project timeline media and then Edit/Paste it into a newly created project. You edits will carry over. See if everything works properly in the new project.

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Rich839

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Oct 7, 2020 8:33 AM in response to drekka

Your audio clips normally would be attached to the video clips above them so that they don't get moved out of sequence. Do you possibly have them in a lower audio well where they are not attached? Could you post a screen shot of your timeline?

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Adding a freeze frame In iMovie moves all my audio clips around

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