How do I place movies more precisely on the timeline?

[varadero99]

Sometimes I want to place the beginning of a movie clip exactly in time with the music in a certain place.
But when I drag the movie clips on the timeline, the movie clip jumps by 1 second. It is not possible to put them on an exact point without them jumping to a full second on the timeline.
An example. I want the movie clip to start in 41.23 seconds. Either the movie clip stops at 41.00 seconds or 42.00 seconds.
Anyone know if this can be changed in any setting?

Thanks in advance.
Peter

[gewb]

Here is how I would do it:

1. Place a black JPG at the beginning of the Video track.
2. Double-click the Video track JPG to open the Edit tab.
3. Set the time length to 41 seconds 23 frames (41:23).
4. Insert your video clip behind the black JPG - it should snap to it.

Done.

[tletter]

I want the movie clip to start in 41.23 seconds. Either the movie clip stops at 41.00 seconds or 42.00 seconds.

41.23 is not seconds, rather it's 41 seconds and 23 frames. You can zoom in to the frame level on the timeline and place a clip at the desired frame location.

tletter
https://www.youtube.com/user/tletter

[asik1]

just place a marker and clips will be snap to it.

[Ken Berry]

You can also expand the timeline out to frame by frame (so for PAL you would have 25 frames for every second of video, and 29.97 or really, 30, for every frame of NTSC...