Soundtrack displaced by new video

Technoir84

Hello! My first post here and already having some issues.

I have a 3 min long video made of a dozen of so smaller video clips.
An audio track runs below.
So far so good.
Next, I try to insert some newly made video clips into the 3 min video
The problem: The new video clips displace the audio track. No audio track wants to stay right below the newly inserted video clips. All audio immediately moves out of the way resulting in a large audio gap where those new video clips are.
I tried deleting the audio track and re-importing the entire audio again. The audio track then completely skips the video and positions itself before or after it.

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Thanks in advance for your advice!

borate

If audio and video are linked, right-click in either track and UNLINK them.

Click the lock icon at the left of the audio track.

Or right-click in a blank area near the speaker icon - and LOCK TRACK. Then edit the video.

(Gaps can be closed with a right-click|CLOSE GAP.)

Technoir84

Thank you very much, that solved the issue !

Unfortunately now I have a very different issue: When I drag a new video clip into a gap in my video, it does not go inside that gap. Instead, it creates a new video track just above the existing one........

https://ibb.co/q9YgcBh

I've been using the program for a week without a hitch, and now two in a row with no solution on any tutorials 😲

In any case, thank you for the help!

borate

There are a number of ways to insert a clip without it landing on the overlay (higher) track. One of the best, that ensures the clip will be inserted at just the right place...

Use the ||< and >|| icons under the preview window to position the cursor at the split point where you want to drop in the new video.

Right-click the clip in the bin and PLACE ON SEQUENCE AT CURSOR.

Technoir84

Thanks for the tip, that worked well.