Help with snapping to timeline issue, Prem Pro noob.

[fervo fluxo]

Hi there,

I am fairly new to Premier Pro currently and experiencing an issue I don't know if matters or can be changed.

I am creating a gif like video or sequence of photos from an events brand I own synced to a music clip.

I wanted to line up my photo clips to peaks in the wave form of the audio, I can do so but not to the exact point of the cut I make in the audio.

I enabled show audio time units so I could zoom in further in the waveform and make my cuts but when I try to drag my clips to the cut point it won't let me. The clips will only snap to a frame point on the timeline.

Is this fixed or is there a setting where you can snap clips to a point off the frame line?

It's miliseconds of difference but just curious if it's possible to do. I realise that in most cases video makes would sync audio to video, but what in the case of music video makers where the video needs to sync specifically to certain points in the audio?

Am I overthinking this because it's literally milliseconds in difference?

Thanks for any responses.

[R Neil Haugen]

Video is frames. Period.

You cannot subdivide frames. Each is precisely the same length as any other.

You can move audio tracks by audio time units down to the millisecond. But not images.

[Richard M Knight]

If you increase the framerate in the sequence settings you will get a smaller frame duration, this might help you sync to music.

[R Neil Haugen]

Very true, and may help the OP.

Another part of this is understanding that no one else can do this to any video. Yet are you bothered when watching them?

If not, well ... think about it.