how to unlock tracks in garageband

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how to unlock tracks in garageband

I am trying to remove the first minute of a song for a track for a school play. I found the track on Youtube and used Keepvid to transpose it to a mp4. It opens in Quicktime as well as itunes, so I figured it would be okay.

Started a new project in Garageband, and went to media to input the track. It plays fine. Once I place the header where I want to cut and then create the two segments, it will delete the first part that's useless but will NOT move the second part up to fill the empty space. I have researched and found out it has the lock, which keeps settings in place for a track, but I can't unlock this segment.

I've tried copying and pasting the segment to another track and muting the original (so it turns grey) but it will still not play the orange segment.

How the **** can I fix this? Hours of research online and I seem to be the only person in the world with this problem without a solution.

Help?

Posted on Mar 28, 2016 12:49 PM

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léonie

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Mar 28, 2016 1:12 PM in response to C_B_Carebear

The problem is, tat the .mp4 you are importing to GarageBAnd is added as a movie track, and that is behaving differently from regular tracks. You cannot shift the position of the audio of a movie track.

What you however can do is copying the the audio track of the movie to a new audio track. That will be unlocked. And then simply delete the movie you imported to Garageband.

To duplicate the audio region of the mp4 movie you imported, hold down the options key while you drag the locked audio region to a different audio track.

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