Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 565)

This chapter covers the following:
• Snapping to Points in the Timeline (p. 565)
• Moving Items Within the Timeline (p. 566)
• Copying and Pasting Clips in the Timeline (p. 571)
• Deleting Clips from a Sequence (p. 576)
• Finding and Closing Gaps (p. 578)
• Color-Coding Clips in the Timeline (p. 581)
After initial content has been added to the Timeline, the next part of the rough editing
phase is assembling clips into the order in which you want them to appear.
Snapping to Points in the Timeline
The Timeline is where you arrange clip items, scene by scene and shot by shot. The
snapping feature helps you line up large groups of clips without accidentally creating
gaps. To arrange content, you need to know how to move, copy, cut, paste, and delete
within a sequence.
The snapping behavior makes it easier and quicker to do things like line up a video and
an audio clip item on two tracks, or align the playhead to a particular marker. When
snapping is turned on, items you move in the Timeline, including the playhead and
selected clips, appear to jump, or “snap,” directly to certain points in the Timeline.
Several elements trigger snapping in the Timeline:
• Clip boundaries
• The playhead
• Markers
• Keyframes
• In and Out points
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