Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 340)

340 Part VI Rough Editing
Replace edits follow a few special rules:
 Replace edits use the current playhead positions in the Timeline and the Viewer to
place the source clip in the Timeline.
 Replace edits never use clip In and Out points specified in the Viewer. If these points
have been set, they will be ignored.
 By default, a replace edit uses the duration of the sequence clip intersected by the
Timeline playhead. However, if you set sequence In and Out points, the resulting
sequence clip duration is determined by these points.
Note: If you do set In and Out points in the Timeline, they will be used even if they
span multiple clips, as long as there’s enough media on either side of the playhead in
your source clip.
 A replace edit places the source clip into your sequence so that the frame at the
position of the playhead in the Viewer is located at the Canvas/Timeline playhead
position. Therefore, it’s important that you have enough media in your source clip to
the left and right of the playhead in the Viewer to accommodate the space you’ll be
filling in the Timeline. If you don’t, you’ll see an “Insufficient content for edit” message.
 If you perform a replace edit by dragging a clip directly from the Browser,
Final Cut Express HD uses the location of the Viewer playhead from the last time that
clip was open in the Viewer. If the clip is newly imported and has never been opened
in the Viewer, Final Cut Express HD uses that clip’s starting frame, since that is the
default starting position for a clip.
 You can only perform a replace edit with one clip at a time. If you select multiple
clips, only the first one will be used.
The most basic use of the replace edit is to quickly and easily replace a clip in your
edited sequence with a source clip synchronized around a similar action.
In and Out points
spanning multiple clips