Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 96)

96 Chapter 4 Working with the Canvas and Timeline
Place a clip so that it ends at a specific point in a sequence:
Place the playhead on a frame in the sequence where you would like the incoming clip
1
to end.
Press O to set an Out point for the sequence in the Timeline.
2
Sequence Out point
marking where an
incoming clip should end
In the Viewer, set In and Out points in a clip. 3
Drag the clip from the Viewer to the Overwrite section of the Canvas Edit Overlay. 4
Final Cut Pro places the Out point of the incoming clip at the sequence Out point.
Fill a specific segment of a sequence with a clip:
Place the playhead on a frame in the sequence where you would like an incoming clip
1
to start.
Press I to set an In point in the sequence.
2
Move the playhead ahead to a frame where you would like the clip to end. (For now, 3
just move the playhead ahead about 10 frames.)
Press O to set an Out point in the sequence.
4