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UPDATE! I've discovered that audio clips DO link to video, provided they fit neatly within the time of the video clip. If they overlap even slightly with the following shot then they become unlinked. Which prompts my next question: is it possible to link longer clips, such as music playing under a sequence? Surely such a clip should be linkable to the first shot in the sequence?

Playing with the free edition of v 2.30, I've hit against what seems a very basic flaw with Videopad. I'm adding sound effects to a mute animation. I've recorded the effects myself, and most of them last only a second or so. It all works nicely - I can import them as audio files, drop them down to the soundtrack lines and drag them into position easily enough. But if I then make the slightest change to the sequence of video files - for instance, adjust the length of the blank clip at the start - it throws the sound effects out of sync because they're not linked to the video. Frustratingly, under "Options" there's a box marked "Attach short sound clips to video", but it seems to make no difference whether it's checked or not. It seems ridiculous to have all this scope for adding audio to video if there's no way to sync the two together in a reliable way. Or am I missing something?