Inserting clips to video track

[santhonus]

New user here. I searched the forum and couldn't find anything about this, so sorry for the newb question, but when I drag a clip from my media window to drop it into the timeline, it always snaps all the way to the left to the nearest clip regardless of where I'm dropping it, pushing clips or images to the right further down the timeline and de-syncing them with my audio track. I have empty space between clips because I haven't decided where to put some different images and clips yet, but I want the ones I have put in already to stay where they are. Am I missing an option somewhere or is this seriously by design?

[RobertOZ]

If you use the main track, everything you place in the timeline will snap left to fill any spaces.
What you need to do is use an overlay track, you will be able to place your images/video anywhere you want and if you enable ripple editing, they will stay in that location, no matter what changes are made

[santhonus]

If you use the main track, everything you place in the timeline will snap left to fill any spaces.
What you need to do is use an overlay track, you will be able to place your images/video anywhere you want and if you enable ripple editing, they will stay in that location, no matter what changes are made

Understood, thank you. That just seems like a deceptive design choice. When I click and drag the new clip onto the video track, there's a clip-sized highlight in the timeline and a timestamp hoverbox wherever I drag the clip as if it's helping me position it exactly where I want it, only for it to disappear to the left when I let go of the mouse button. I can only manually move it after it's snapped. If I can't drop it manually where I want it at that point, don't show the helper highlights.

If any Corel admins read this, please ask the developers to let manual initial placement of clips and images be an option in future updates.

[RobertOZ]

If you have VS2019 and are using the main video track, whilst when you add clips, they will snap left. if you then highlight the clip, you can drag it along the timeline

[asik1]

If you use the main track, everything you place in the timeline will snap left to fill any spaces.
What you need to do is use an overlay track, you will be able to place your images/video anywhere you want and if you enable ripple editing, they will stay in that location, no matter what changes are made

Understood, thank you. That just seems like a deceptive design choice. When I click and drag the new clip onto the video track, there's a clip-sized highlight in the timeline and a timestamp hoverbox wherever I drag the clip as if it's helping me position it exactly where I want it, only for it to disappear to the left when I let go of the mouse button. I can only manually move it after it's snapped. If I can't drop it manually where I want it at that point, don't show the helper highlights.

If any Corel admins read this, please ask the developers to let manual initial placement of clips and images be an option in future updates.

santhonus, you are new to VS philosophy, but that feature is one of the best features of VS . once you understand the point everything run smooth.

[tombobillabongo]

Don't you need to enable 'ripple editing' to maintain the audio sync in this situation?