[Harald Sandø]

But Apple COULD enable a ‘lock clip’ feature without any problem, though. I don’t see why not. It would have been handy in many cases. For instance when you want the magnetic timeline feature, but still want to ‘cut to’ some different music tracks at certain times.

Right now, for instance, I am cutting a promo of about 3-4 minutes for a tourist place in Sweden. I have chosen the music and the approximate length of the film, and put the music clips where I want them. But they of course get moved here and there whenever I move the clips they are connected to. I could of course move ALL the clips except the music into a separate storyline above the main story line, but that seems very cumbersome…

Actually, I don’t see why fcpx couldn’t incorporate some ‘track behavior’ that could be optional at times. Sometimes I get confused when I for instance have several clips with narrator voice together with several music clips. When I move them around the clips jump up and down and ‘glue’ themselves as close to the primary storyline as possible. In this case I would have liked to have a (lockable) ‘track utility’ where the narrator stayed at one ‘track’ position and the music at another. I could of course create one storyline for music and one for the narrator, but then the single clips in the storyline doesn’t connect to the clips in the primary storyline…

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