Clipchamp: How to insert a clip or black screen so everything shifts over together and stays synced? I want to add an intro at the beginning of my video.

Hello! Laura Savino

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I understand that you need help with creating/inserting a clip for making intro with the use of Clipchamp. I will do my best to help you in any case if my troubleshooting steps are not working for you, please let me know as we have a dedicated team for Clipchamp.

To add an intro clip to your video in Clipchamp, you can follow these steps:

1. Open your project in Clipchamp.
2. Click on the "Add Media" button in the left-hand menu.
3. Select the intro clip you want to add from your computer.
4. Drag and drop the intro clip to the beginning of your timeline.
5. If necessary, adjust the length of the intro clip by dragging the edges of the clip in the timeline.
6. To keep all the lines in sync, make sure that the intro clip is the same length as the rest of your video. You can do this by adjusting the length of the intro clip or trimming the rest of your video to match the length of the intro clip.
7. Preview your video to make sure everything is in sync.

If the first one doesn't work you can try this one. To insert a clip or black screen at the beginning of your video in Clipchamp, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the Clipchamp editor and select the video you want to edit.
2. Click on the Content Library tab on the left-hand side of the screen.
3. Click on the Visuals dropdown arrow and select Backgrounds.
4. Drag and drop a black background video onto the timeline below your video.
5. If you want to add a clip, drag and drop it onto the timeline below the black background video.
6. To ensure that everything stays synced, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click on all the assets on your timeline that you would like to edit at once. Your assets will highlight in green.
7. Click on the Effects tab on the property panel, then click on an effect to apply to all videos

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thank you,

Vince
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Regards,

Vince

No, I have gotten no answer. Do you know the answer?

This does not work.

If I insert a image or anything into the timeline, the rest of the texts, gifs, everything else get unsynced. It's really annoying. You cannot change your mind when building the video. You have to know it right from the beginning otherwise you will have to sync everything manually MULTIPLE times - it's very error-prone.

Easy: press Ctrl+A on the keyboard to select everything then move it to the right; add the intro to the video; then click "delete visual gap" in the space between the intro and the video. I did this LOTS of times, hope it helps!