Hi John,

Having it at 32 tracks is causing some irritations for me at the moment. I will never need more than 4 tracks and 99% of the time I'll be using a max of 3 tracks. I'll leave it for now to see if it clears up.

As for #2 it is hard to explain what it is doing. All I know is that when I go back into a track to do something, it disappears when I go back and is nowhere to be found, then a few minutes later it appears again. I'm not sure if there is a bug in the program or if it is normal and I do not understand what is going on. Either way it is frustrating.

So to delete the audio track from the time line I would click the "X" on the front end of the track? If so, would it put the new audio track in Track #2?

In fact, the other thing that caught me is that when I recorded the audio track, it put it in track #4. It was supposed to put it in Track #2 by default per the manual and tutorials, but it did not. Thank you for the trick to fix that, I did not know about selecting the track first. Now I won't have to do a scary move like before.

The audio edit screen and clean up screen is not needed for me. All my audio edits will be do-overs because it is just my voice. I'm not sure I understand your edit process. If I need three sentences and the third one goes bad, why would I trim it off and try to do some crazy move with it and just leave it? No no, I re-do everything, it is much longer, but easier for me. I figure I am supposed to spend at least 1.5 to 2 hours editing a 3 minute video and longer for 5 min vids and so on. That is just how I understand it goes for newbies for the first 12 months at least. It is what it is. It is the hardest thing about creating content outside of screwing up 6 or 7 times in filming and having to do the entire thing over.

What I meant about asking where the audio file goes I was referring to the tracks. When I fist did it I could not find it in all 32 tracks, it just was not there. When I did one yesterday it showed, but in the wrong track. I just let the file go wherever the default is except for saving the project, I put that in a different folder so I can find it easier. I will put the finished videos (if I ever actually get to finish one) in the same folder as an MP4 so I can post it later, plus I will have the MS project right there in case of later editing or something, then just re-save it as MP4 replacing the other one. I have a feeling that once I have about 5 short vids I will need an external hard drive. My PC has 1TB (two 500GB SSD HDD), but obviously not empty to start with. I have some mechanical HDDs I can use (I have a dock and enclosures as well as stand alone external mech HDDs). I do plan on getting a 1TB external SSD in future as well, which will likely be for music though.

That was someone else with the two cameras and phone and all that mess. I just have one camcorder and two still cams (one old SLR and one "point n shoot"). I use the SLR for stills (Example: I use it for showing some CDs) and the vid cam will be for showing the vinyl records, demos and everything else except screen recording of course.

@Eric-Elliott

Hi Eric,

Here is a quick and dirty video on many things that you should know, particularly about adding and editing narration. I didn't edit my audio narration in this video, so it's a bit all over the place. For example, I think that I said that I use Music Studio instead of Movie Studio. My capture program doesn't have a mono button for audio, so my narration is only on one channel - left.

John CB

Damn it!!!!! This is the most frustrating thing in the universe. Movie Studio failed on me. I went in and followed the instructions to redo my voice over. When I deleted the track #2 where I manually dragged the audio to it was replaced by the "Text" track, which became Track #2. I want the audio there so I highlighted the header of Track #2 so when I record the audio will go there. I assumed some intelligence that the program would then move the Text track down to #3.

WRONG. My audio track is nowhere to be found! When I played the video back there was no audio!

I don't know what to do because now it will not even record audio at all! The screen is there and registering, but the audio goes no place.

I'm so flustered now that I think I may just give up and throw all the gear and everything away. I'm am getting nowhere. I take one step forward and five steps back. It just should not be this hard. I am really hating Movie Studio at this point, it just doesn't work as advertised.

@Eric-Elliott

Hi,

You have tracks to work with. I showed you what to do in the video.

If you have something in the way where you want to record, move it to another track or record on another track.

You can record on any track and move the object later.

That is why you have all of these tracks available.

When I deleted the track #2

Don't delete tracks! Delete or move the objects on the tracks.

If you delete an object (video, photo, audio) from the timeline the file is still on your hard drive. However, if you delete a text object, this is done in the program, not in an external file, so your text will be deleted.

Your recording probably went to the end of the timeline. Did you look there? If it's there, just drag it to where you want it.

If not, the file will still be there on your hard drive where your recorded it. That is why I showed you how to name and where to locate your recordings. Just go there with Windows Explorer and drag it to the timeline - on an empty track and move it to where you want it. This is basic editing.

John CB

@Eric-Elliott

Hi,

You have tracks to work with. I showed you what to do in the video.

If you have something in the way where you want to record, move it to another track or record on another track.

You can record on any track and move the object later.

That is why you have all of these tracks available.

When I deleted the track #2

Don't delete tracks! Delete or move the objects on the tracks.

If you delete an object (video, photo, audio) from the timeline the file is still on your hard drive. However, if you delete a text object, this is done in the program, not in an external file, so your text will be deleted.

Your recording probably went to the end of the timeline. Did you look there? If it's there, just drag it to where you want it.

If not, the file will still be there on your hard drive where your recorded it. That is why I showed you how to name and where to locate your recordings. Just go there with Windows Explorer and drag it to the timeline - on an empty track and move it to where you want it. This is basic editing.

John CB

I thought I had to click the "x" at the head of the track to delete and redo. I'll watch the video again, but that is what I thought I saw.

Yes, I scrolled forever and did indeed find the audio at the end of Track #2. It took me about 6 minutes to move it to Track #3 where I do not want it (far too long a time). Now I can't figure out how to move it to Track #2 where it needs to be. I tried dragging it there, but that doesn't work.

I now hear my audio when I playback, however it needs to be on Track#2 otherwise I can't edit the video part to match. I just need to extend the time of the video part, but I can't do that unless the audio is right below it, my eyes don't work normally. I get sick just moving them side to side in tests. So how do I delete the audio in the track and re-do it if it is not the little "x" at the header?

I watched your video again, but it doesn't really address what I am trying to do. I want to put my voiceover on track #2. If I find that I messed up someplace in my narration, I want to re-do the entire thing. I have no interest in trying to just fix it, I don't have a Phd in video or audio editing. I taught myself the basics of audio editing, but they do not apply here.

I also do not want to save my narration in a separate folder in some file tree. I will never be able to use it that way. I want to save it in the same project so I don't have to look for all the parts and try to figure out how they fit together. That is what the program is supposed to do.

The 500 page manual to this thing is almost useless. I talks more about stuff I will never use, than what I need to use. I have not and will not download all the stuff it keeps asking me on startup either as I'm sure it is not for me and likely problematic at best. I got this version of the program only because it was the least expensive. I was not interested in all the extra stuff.
 

What do I do to redo an audio track (voice over)? The only option I see is "delete". The other options are "copy" "Paste", "cut" and "add". I can't use "cut" because it needs to be pasted someplace.

I don't understand what to do if I am not supposed to "delete" the track?

@Eric-Elliott

Hi Eric,

Please watch my video several times.

What do I do to redo an audio track (voice over)?

First, let's get the jargon straight. You don't redo an audio track, you simply record again to an audio file. In Movie Studio (MMS), tracks are what you put objects on. Objects are video files, photo files, audio files.

In MMS, you do not record a track. When you record, as I pointed out, the program creates an audio file with the name and at the location that you specify. It also puts that audio file onto a track where you specify or wherever it can. The audio file is not actually in MMS - it is just a pointer to the file that is on your hard drive. The same applies to photos and videos - what you put on the timeline is just a pointer to the real file. These files always need to exist on your hard drive.

Delete - yes, to remove an object, be it and audio file (your recording), photo or video or text, select it and either click on the garbage can on the toolbar above the timeline or right-click and select Delete from the menu or use the Delete key on your keyboard just like every other program.

Do not delete a track. If you put 10 photos on track 1 and want to delete 1 of them, do you delete the track, meaning that you remove all photos or do you just delete 1 photo?

You said that you have to put the audio on track 2 so that you can line it up with the video. I told you to use the setting with video and its audio on separate tracks. That means track 1 for the video and 2 for the audio, just like in my video.

Then record onto track 3 or 4 or 5. I showed you how to record in the video.

I don't understand what you mean by having to line up your audio with the video by having the audio immediately below the video object. Use the preview monitor to see what is in the video, not the little images on track 1. That is next to useless.

Can you post some screen shots so that we can see what you are doing?

John CB

@Eric-Elliott

Hi Eric,

Please watch my video several times.

What do I do to redo an audio track (voice over)?

First, let's get the jargon straight. You don't redo an audio track, you simply record again to an audio file. In Movie Studio (MMS), tracks are what you put objects on. Objects are video files, photo files, audio files.

In MMS, you do not record a track. When you record, as I pointed out, the program creates an audio file with the name and at the location that you specify. It also puts that audio file onto a track where you specify or wherever it can. The audio file is not actually in MMS - it is just a pointer to the file that is on your hard drive. The same applies to photos and videos - what you put on the timeline is just a pointer to the real file. These files always need to exist on your hard drive.

Delete - yes, to remove an object, be it and audio file (your recording), photo or video or text, select it and either click on the garbage can on the toolbar above the timeline or right-click and select Delete from the menu or use the Delete key on your keyboard just like every other program.

Do not delete a track. If you put 10 photos on track 1 and want to delete 1 of them, do you delete the track, meaning that you remove all photos or do you just delete 1 photo?

You said that you have to put the audio on track 2 so that you can line it up with the video. I told you to use the setting with video and its audio on separate tracks. That means track 1 for the video and 2 for the audio, just like in my video.

Then record onto track 3 or 4 or 5. I showed you how to record in the video.

I don't understand what you mean by having to line up your audio with the video by having the audio immediately below the video object. Use the preview monitor to see what is in the video, not the little images on track 1. That is next to useless.

Can you post some screen shots so that we can see what you are doing?

John CB

Hi John,

I'm more confused that ever now. I'll watch your video for the sixth time, but I am not understanding.

Unfortunately, my system can not do screenshots without special software, which I have but have not learned how to use yet. I tried just taking a screenshot, but it will not let me save it anywhere as a jpeg or anything. I can't even put it in MS Paint or anything. I can put it in a Word doc, but it will not save as a jpeg or anything.

My English is not enough to learn to call things what they don't seem to be. If I don't delete a track, but I do the same procedure to "delete" the "object" and the track disappears, then what is happening? I live on a different earth I guess. I did not highlight anything when I did that before, I just clicked the "x". Maybe that is the difference and would work differently.
MS does not allow me to specify the track I want to place my narration beforehand, it only let's me specify the filename and where to put it in my PC. I tried doing that and it still ended up in Track #4.

The audio is on a separate track, it defaults to track #4 and I have to carefully try to move it to Track# 2 so it is right below the "object (s)" in Track#1. That way I can see if Track #1 is too short or long and adjust it to fit the narration. It is near impossible to do when I have to scroll to find track #4 or when it is two or more tracks away from track #1. My text defaults to track #3 or something, which is fine, that can be anywhere it wants. This is why I need the audio to be directly below track #1. IK can watch the preview all day and that won't help even if IU use a stopwatch, which is ridiculous. I can't edit in the preview window (although MS says you can). I only use the preview to see how it flows or whatever.

If I don't learn or understand this stuff in the next week, I am giving up and tossing all my gear for this attempt. I just was looking to share my knowledge accumulated over 57+ years on music and my knowledge on custodianship, audio gear, etc. I can't monetize so I don't even concern myself with that, but did have to get the basic equipment. This stuff is way harder than I thought. It seems to require that I pay tons of tuition for 10 years of higher learning to do it. This is not something one can learn in ones own.

@Eric-Elliott

Hi,

I can't even put it in MS Paint or anything. I can put it in a Word doc, but it will not save as a jpeg or anything.

Simply paste the screen shot in Word, right-click on it and you'll see Save as Picture. Do that and in the drop down for the type, select jpeg. Give the file a name and save it somewhere. Then upload that using the upload button at the top of your next message in the forum.

I just tried audio recording to track 2 in Movie Studio 2024 and you are right, it puts the audio on track 4 the first time. The next time, it put it on track 2. I don't have MS2025 so I don't know if it wants to put the subsequent audio recordings on track 2 or 4.

Here is another video for you to watch. It's a bit disjointed. When I make my tutorials, they are planned and scripted and edited in detail. This was done live.

Basic editing is simple but you still have to learn how. I presume that you have not read the Quick Start part of the manual or watched my videos on basic editing, which you should have done. If you want to use any video program, you have to do some learning. Movie Studio is one of the most basic and straight-forward video editors available.

To learn, I create test projects and play around, learning whatever I need to, just like in the above video. I suggest that you do the same. Trying to learn by doing a real project can be very frustrating and time consuming.

John CB

Hi Eric.

I do understand that for some people who have not had much experience with computers all of this can be daunting.

What you may not realise is the people who have been trying to help you are also (mostly) older or at least retired. I myself am 68 years old. In my younger working days worked in the film/TV/Audio industry Editing film and recording audio so I had a technical background all be it in the days of analog and physical handling of media and not the digital media now represented in ones and zeros.

I left that in the late 70s and went into industry then later self employment so I have had to relearn stuff all my life so having to grasp new ideas has not been maybe such a struggle as it could be for others.

In earlier posts you have said you would prefer individual tutorage. This I understand as I that was a large part of my job when self employed. That path to learning is expensive but there are other ways of getting tutorage dependent on where you live.

If you live in the UK there is a volunteer group called 'Men In Sheds' who comprise of men (and surprisingly women) who have worked in various disciplines or have avid interests in various hobbies and can tutor on one to one or a group basis for a small donation to the group that allows them to rent meeting places or buy materials etc, or if one does not have the disposable income can be offered help for free.

There may be similar groups in your area that you could contact for help. A lot may depend on the country you reside in.

The relatively small amount of people trying to help you here are from all over the world. The UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, The USA and possibly others of who I am not aware of their home country.

While I don't think age is a barrier to learning, as we get older, getting to grips with newer ways of working does become much harder and slower to adapt to.

I am lucky. Although I left the entertainment industry my passion for photography and recording audio in general got me into the digital age and side of things quite early. With Windows 98 to be precise and using a an audio program called Cubase for my audio recording and using Photoshop for developing my images from my Digital cameras

. From there it was not a big leap to start using Video editing software and for me at least the graphical layout and the way the Magix programs worked were close enough to what I was already used to seeing as to make it almost second nature.

I know, and we see from others that went straight into Video editing with the original Sony Vegas programs, that using The Magix versions of that program is just as alien and confusing to them as it is to you. Possibly more so.

But just because I and others here can do all of this and we accept it as being easy, it is only because of our past experiences that we have built upon that have got us to this point.

Ask me to do something similar on my smart phone and I would not know where to begin. I know it is possible and possibly a bit more long winded but where to start? I haven't a clue.

I can see your frustration in your replies on the pages that you post to and possibly the frustration of those trying to help you when they can't get what is to them now a simple process across to you so that you can do it for yourself.

But please know this. All the time you do not give up, nor will most the people here stop trying to help you.

That it will possibly be frustrating on both sides but I don't think impossible.

I think for those trying to help it would be first helpful to try to help you understand what the timeline editor is and is not.

Images with some small amount of text may help more to explain rather than video with lots of text.

I will at some point try to start doing that. Bit by bit if you are still replying to the posts here.

Ray.

 

Can you post some screen shots so that we can see what you are doing?

John CB

Hi John,

I'm more confused that ever now. I'll watch your video for the sixth time, but I am not understanding.

Unfortunately, my system can not do screenshots without special software, which I have but have not learned how to use yet. I tried just taking a screenshot, but it will not let me save it anywhere as a jpeg or anything. I can't even put it in MS Paint or anything. I can put it in a Word doc, but it will not save as a jpeg or anything.

 

@Eric-Elliott I showed you how to create & save a screenshot, you even replied saying that you would do it. This link will take you straight to my comment where I showed you https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-did-my-audio-go--1339300/#ca1939664

 

Can you post some screen shots so that we can see what you are doing?

John CB

Hi John,

I'm more confused that ever now. I'll watch your video for the sixth time, but I am not understanding.

Unfortunately, my system can not do screenshots without special software, which I have but have not learned how to use yet. I tried just taking a screenshot, but it will not let me save it anywhere as a jpeg or anything. I can't even put it in MS Paint or anything. I can put it in a Word doc, but it will not save as a jpeg or anything.

 

@Eric-Elliott I showed you how to create & save a screenshot, you even replied saying that you would do it. This link will take you straight to my comment where I showed you https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-did-my-audio-go--1339300/#ca1939664

Yes, Sorry, but there is so much I get lost easy. I just tried that trick and it doesn't work. What it does do is brings up a menu specific to MS about batch files or something. (I call it a bug that should be fixed).
I am going to try to do a screenshot through Word.

Here is my screen shot:

I don't have MS Word as it is not available to me. I am using German software that is like MS Word (Ashampoo), but does not function the same. I had to go through several steps to find a work around to convert to jpeg, but I did it.

As you can see, my narration track is #3 and I need it to be #2. I am going to attempt to move it.

I also need to make sure the time the picture and scrolling text appears is the same as the length of narration. I think I got it, but have not confirmed yet. I get dead stopped when I run into such problems and get very fearful of going further until resolved.

I may scrap this video all together and just put in the written description what I am doing here if it is not right.

I am going to work on shorter video segments I think. I was trying to show pics of the artist and then pics of the CDs in one take and narrate through it. However, I recently got the idea to do segments instead and stitch them together, which should be as easy as simply adding them from on the same track from the contents container or whatever it is called. However, something tells me I will run into a huge problem when I do that such as the narration won't import with the picture/video. If that happens I am giving up, because there is no easy fix for that. In that case, I will forget the CDs and move on to live takes.
 

@Eric-Elliott

Hi,

I can't even put it in MS Paint or anything. I can put it in a Word doc, but it will not save as a jpeg or anything.

Simply paste the screen shot in Word, right-click on it and you'll see Save as Picture. Do that and in the drop down for the type, select jpeg. Give the file a name and save it somewhere. Then upload that using the upload button at the top of your next message in the forum.

I just tried audio recording to track 2 in Movie Studio 2024 and you are right, it puts the audio on track 4 the first time. The next time, it put it on track 2. I don't have MS2025 so I don't know if it wants to put the subsequent audio recordings on track 2 or 4.

Here is another video for you to watch. It's a bit disjointed. When I make my tutorials, they are planned and scripted and edited in detail. This was done live.

Basic editing is simple but you still have to learn how. I presume that you have not read the Quick Start part of the manual or watched my videos on basic editing, which you should have done. If you want to use any video program, you have to do some learning. Movie Studio is one of the most basic and straight-forward video editors available.

To learn, I create test projects and play around, learning whatever I need to, just like in the above video. I suggest that you do the same. Trying to learn by doing a real project can be very frustrating and time consuming.

John CB

I have read the quick start part of the manual and I'm not sure what program it discusses, it is disjointed. I have also read through parts of the main manual trying to find what is relative, but that is difficult the way the contents table is laid out. I have watched the quick start and your videos twice and struggle to follow. The official tutorials don't cover the basics for what I am trying to do. I'm trying to be very minimal, I have no interest in high quality or Hollywood productions. If I need that I would have to hire a crew.

As for doing tests that are not real projects, that is not easy for me. I need things to act they way they would with real projects and what I am trying to do is very minimal in function. I don't care about color saturation, algorithms, tags, hues, advanced stuff I can't even pronounce, etc.

I expected to be able to learn the very basic minimum without 7 years of higher education needed, but I am proven wrong. I am beginning to believe that video editing programs and complicated music programs and such are for those who want a career in those fields and not for the casual creator or what have you.

Hi Eric.

I do understand that for some people who have not had much experience with computers all of this can be daunting.

What you may not realise is the people who have been trying to help you are also (mostly) older or at least retired. I myself am 68 years old. In my younger working days worked in the film/TV/Audio industry Editing film and recording audio so I had a technical background all be it in the days of analog and physical handling of media and not the digital media now represented in ones and zeros.

In earlier posts you have said you would prefer individual tutorage. This I understand as I that was a large part of my job when self employed. That path to learning is expensive but there are other ways of getting tutorage dependent on where you live.

While I don't think age is a barrier to learning, as we get older, getting to grips with newer ways of working does become much harder and slower to adapt to.

But just because I and others here can do all of this and we accept it as being easy, it is only because of our past experiences that we have built upon that have got us to this point.

Ask me to do something similar on my smart phone and I would not know where to begin. I know it is possible and possibly a bit more long winded but where to start? I haven't a clue.

I can see your frustration in your replies on the pages that you post to and possibly the frustration of those trying to help you when they can't get what is to them now a simple process across to you so that you can do it for yourself.

But please know this. All the time you do not give up, nor will most the people here stop trying to help you.

That it will possibly be frustrating on both sides but I don't think impossible.

I think for those trying to help it would be first helpful to try to help you understand what the timeline editor is and is not.

Images with some small amount of text may help more to explain rather than video with lots of text.

I will at some point try to start doing that. Bit by bit if you are still replying to the posts here.

Ray.

I'm not retired (59) and must keep working until I'm at least 71 (although I don't think I will be around then), so my learning time is also limited, which may be a factor. I have to wait a whole week to try things.

I live in the US unfortunately.

See, that is the wall if you well, All you guys have decades of experience with this stuff as you have all had careers in it. So yes, to you lot, it all seems simple as breathing.

I'm the same way with smartphones, I barely know how to turn them on and off, I just learned how to text and can make calls. I hate those things and swore I would never have one, but it was forced on me in 2023. Not worth the $150 it cost and I often never even turn it on. I certainly can't do anything else with it and my eye sight is so bad that the screen looks like a postage stamp and the enlargement trick makes things worse. That is the entire breadth and width of what I know about "stupidphones" as I call them. Give me a rotary or simple push button phone any time!

I just figured out the screenshot stuff, but due to using German made software the usual MicroSoft instructions do not apply, so I discover the work arounds.

@Eric-Elliott I showed you how to create & save a screenshot, you even replied saying that you would do it. This link will take you straight to my comment where I showed you https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-did-my-audio-go--1339300/#ca1939664

Yes, Sorry, but there is so much I get lost easy. I just tried that trick and it doesn't work. What it does do is brings up a menu specific to MS about batch files or something. (I call it a bug that should be fixed).
I am going to try to do a screenshot through Word.

@Eric-Elliott I've no idea what you're talking about, Windows key + Shift + S is a built in Windows shortcut, I doubt that would be hard to change by accident & I also doubt it is a bug,

This is how it goes.

Here is my screen shot:

 

As you can see, my narration track is #3 and I need it to be #2. I am going to attempt to move it.

 

@Eric-Elliott Just click on the audio track clip, keep the mouse button pressed & drag it up onto the track above.

 

See, that is the wall if you well, All you guys have decades of experience with this stuff as you have all had careers in it. So yes, to you lot, it all seems simple as breathing.

@Eric-Elliott I'm a joiner/carpenter, never worked in the film industry & I'm nearly as old as you,
 

Hi John,

Having it at 32 tracks is causing some irritations for me at the moment. I will never need more than 4 tracks and 99% of the time I'll be using a max of 3 tracks. I'll leave it for now to see if it clears up.

@Eric-Elliott Just ignore the tracks below that you're not using, I don't know why this bugs you so much.

I expected to be able to learn the very basic minimum without 7 years of higher education needed, but I am proven wrong. I am beginning to believe that video editing programs and complicated music programs and such are for those who want a career in those fields and not for the casual creator or what have you.

@Eric-Elliott As has been mentioned on here & by me on your other posts this is a very simple editing program to use,

Did you try the simple project I suggested in your other post to get you started with editing, cutting & trimming?,

3 buttons at the bottom of the preview window & 3 keyboard keys, Z to trim the start, T to cut the clip & U to trim the end of the clip. With the clicking on the clip & dragging I mentioned above you can do everything you're are wanting on the timeline,

This link takes you to that project suggestion https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-did-my-audio-go--1339300/?page=1#ca1939804

@Eric-Elliott I showed you how to create & save a screenshot, you even replied saying that you would do it. This link will take you straight to my comment where I showed you https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-did-my-audio-go--1339300/#ca1939664

Yes, Sorry, but there is so much I get lost easy. I just tried that trick and it doesn't work. What it does do is brings up a menu specific to MS about batch files or something. (I call it a bug that should be fixed).
I am going to try to do a screenshot through Word.

@Eric-Elliott I've no idea what you're talking about, Windows key + Shift + S is a built in Windows shortcut, I doubt that would be hard to change by accident & I also doubt it is a bug,

This is how it goes.

What was I hitting? I did Windows key + Shift + S several times and it brought up a batch menu in MS. I just did it again to make a screen shot of that and this time it came up with a menu to select what I want in the screen shot, which would be correct.
There must be something wrong with my PC and windows. My system is clean, perhaps too clean?
 

@Eric-Elliott

As you can see, my narration track is #3 and I need it to be #2.

There is no need to have it on track 2. You have a title on track 2. Just leave your narration on track 3 (or any empty track, it doesn't matter if there are empty tracks).

In Single Object mouse mode:

You can click on any object (image, title or your narration object) and drag it to wherever you want it. (the other mouse modes select the other objects so you can move the whole lot and once).

You can now move your narration.