Dumb question...

[longshot]

How do I stop anything I drag into the main video track from auto snapping to the very begining? Like if I wanted a video clip to start at
00:00:30 instead of 00.00.00.

It won't let me move the clip either once I add it.

The way I am doing it now is to just make a solid black .bmp and add it first, stretching it to where I want the vid to start.

There is prolly a simple way to do this, i'm just to dumb to figure it out, lol.

[Ron P.]

By design any clip in the main video track is to move to the left to keep from having any blank spaces.

Instead of creating a black image file and inserting it, VS provides color mattes, or color blocks for this purpose. From the Library Drop-down menu select Color to open the color library. Then drag one to the main video track as a placeholder. You can set the duration of the color-clip/block to however long you need it to be..

[longshot]

ahh, roger that, thanks much

[Black Lab]

Also, the overlay track allows you to place a clip anywhere, without it snapping to the beginning or to the next clip.