thanks for your suggestions. Reg, you’re right about the merging, I put some slug over the audio file and exported it as ref movie, bought it back in and used that for the multiclip and it all works fine. Just seems so strange that i can’t use a separate audio file to be included in the split (i’m cutting a music performance and i much prefer to here the true desk mix and not the camera sound). Is this normal behavior? it’s just i come from a avid background and am not used to importing, adding slug, exporting, reimporting etc… Cheers j