imovie stop ripple delete?

You are welcome.

Another thing you can do is place a black or other color background in the main timeline, at a duration equal to the length of your movie. Then you can put video clips in the timeline above the main timeline and move them around freely without the magnetized effect. You wouldn't be able to insert transitions, however.

-- Rich

Hi, terisa,

Unfortunately the "magnetized" clips are part of the app and can't be changed.

You can insert a black background clip, as a spacer, of the same duration as the clip you deleted.

-- Rich