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Chris_Lee89
Chris_Lee89
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October 23, 2021
Question

How to lock audio track

  • October 23, 2021
  • 4 replies
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Hey guys I just got Premier elements 2021, and I for the life of me cannot figure out how to unlock an audio track. I edit music videos for fun and have the music on audio one track, but every time I try and put down the edit video, the audio for the video will replace the audio that I have on track one please help

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Chris_Lee89
Chris_Lee89Author
Participant
October 24, 2021

Pretty much anytime i try to move the video that the cursor is, where the light blue is highlighted in the first pic, to where the red line on the timeline is, the audio will somehow move around the video, see pic 2

Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2021

Move your music a track down.

Then mute audio 1 so you wont hear the original sound of the clips.

Chris_Lee89
Chris_Lee89Author
Participant
October 23, 2021

Well that seems the most logical way, I'll show you guys what I'm doing on in a minute 

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Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 23, 2021

I reread you post where you start with, "cannot figure out how to unlock an audio track".  You can select a video track that has audio attached to it, right click and get a popup menu.  On that menu is a choice to "unlink" the video and audio tracks.  That will make the audio track completely independent.  You can move it along the track, move it to another track or delete it entirely.  You can then put any audio track in its place on track one. 

    Chris_Lee89
    Chris_Lee89Author
    Participant
    October 24, 2021

    If you look at the attached photo, I put music to films aka Music videos, and the old elements would allow me to just put a track, aka the song im using, onto the timeline and "lock" it, essentially allowing me to put different parts of the movie onto the timeline without it disturbing the music track, but now this new version just has me all sorts of messed up 

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 24, 2021

    Looks fine to me.

    Drop the separate audio file to Voice or Music. That is what its for.

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    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 23, 2021

    I can probably help, but I don't understand what you mean by "put down the edit video".  Perhaps it is as simple as unlinking the number one video and audio.  But, I'm not sure what you are doing.  

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