Moving clips video + music

Hi there, Im new to FcpX and IM having a hard time with a simple thing: moving video clips in the storyline. I have amusic file on the storyline, and when I move a clip, the music file moves with it instead of staying at its posiion. Its like they are linked. Its driving me crazy. How do I fix this, so if I move the video clip the audio clip remains the same position?

Everything in the timeline is connected to something in the primary storyline. That's basic to the way to the application works.

There are a couple of different ways to do what you're doing. One very common method of building music videos is to put the music on the primary storyline and connect everything to that. Another way is to put a small gap clip at the head of the primary storyline and connect the audio to it, so the audio is pegged to the beginning of the timeline rather than to anything else on the primary storylines.

If you do need to move clips in the Primary Storyline, holding down the Tilde or Grave key (just left of the 1 key, top left of the keyboard), overrides the connection, and connected clips stay where they are. The symbols typed out by this key are ` and ~ which are printed on the key. When you hold this key down, you'll see a "Connection Override" symbol.




Hit P to get the Position tool, which basically turns off the magnetic characteristics of the Primary Storyline, and when you move clips, nothing else moves, and you overwrite. You know you have the Position tool activated, as the mouse cursor is an arrow with no tail.

Remember A is the shortcut to get back to your Arrow (or Selection) tool, which is the default. It looks like an arrow with a tail.

I could be wrong, but another way to move stuff from the primary is to use the "Lift from primary Storyline" command any or all the clips you want to move independently from say your music track without that going all over the place.

I've just recently started to think differently about "Lift from primary Storyline" and actually use it.

Jonathan