Moving video clips to EXACT beat of music

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm editing my first music video in Final Cut Pro X 10.3. I'm trying to move video clips to the EXACT beat of the music but said video clips only move to the next frame (which of course doesn't necessarily correspond to an exact note of audio.) Super frustrating and I'm hoping I can get some help. I'm assuming this has to do with the magnetic timeline; however, there has to be a solution as video cuts/edits in most music videos are obviously cut to the EXACT beat of the music. Hope this makes sense.

Welcome Scott to fcp.co

no, that has nothing to do with Magnetic Timeline … in ANY video-edit-app the smallest increments are frames - depending on your frame-rate this is 1/24th to 1/60th of second.

No such thing as a half frame
A video HAS to show 'full frames' only …

Sure, music has much smaller 'tics', one would notice a shift of a few 1/100th as 'delay' …
But for video editing? Nope. Nobody will notice (ok, Sheldon Cooper would…) aside the fact, editing off-the-beat often gives better results.

Frequent question, no 'solution' available nor needed.

Karsten Schlüter wrote: But for video editing? Nope. Nobody will notice (ok, Sheldon Cooper would…) aside the fact, editing off-the-beat often gives better results.

As Karsten said, you could cut close enough to make it appear absolutely synchronous.

Please watch your favorite music videos. Then link to ONE that cuts straight to the beat instead of the rhythm (off-the beat). Since the beat is predictable, the cut is as well then. It causes a slapstick effect, like mickey mousing . If that's your intention, go ahead!

Thanks so much! Greatly appreciated!!