Here are some screen shots that might help.

If I drop in a still just before the videos, then the videos slide over to make room BUT the music on the second audio track gets split.

If I hold down crtl when I drop in the video, then the video of the first video clip slides over, or rather gets reduced in duration, but the audio of the video clip does not. The music does not get split either, which is good.

If I hold down ALT and drop the clip in, the three video portions of the video clips slide over, don’t appear to be shortened. And the music track is not split. BUT the video and audio portions of the three video clips are no longer in synch. And to get them in synch, you have to right click on the + or – 7 on each, one at a time. And I think you have to start with the one on the right to get them all correct.

From what I read, the Alt key seems to me to be the one that is supposed to drop things in and only move things on the track being impacted AND things that are linked to those things that move. The audio on the video clips is linked to the corresponding video, so why didn’t it move when the video portion moved/

There is a way around this. Just get all of the stills and videos right before adding any other audio. And I will try to do that for simplicity. But there will always be that time when I come back and want to add something after I thought I was through. And if I read the program helps right, the Alt key should do exactly what I want, but it isn’t. Either I am reading it wrong or it doesn’t work correctly, at least in the trial version of PE2.

If I am reading it incorrectly, I would love to be corrected. And if this is just an anomaly of the trial version, not in the final of PE2 nor in PE3, then it isn’t worth worrying about, I’d just like to know. I have been messing with Pinnacle Studio for years, and it is buggy. I already feel like PE is so much more stable than Studio that I am (almost) sold on it. I’d just like to know what gives with this.

Thanks so much for offering to look at it. I appreciate it more than you can ever know.

Don