Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 722)

To trim a clip’s edit point in the Timeline using the Selection tool
1 Select the Selection tool in the Tool palette (or press the A key).
2 Move the pointer to the In or Out point of a clip in the Timeline.
The pointer changes to a Resize pointer.
Before
3 Drag to the left to create a gap in your sequence (by making the clip shorter) or to the
right to cover an existing gap (by making the clip longer).
As you drag to adjust
the length of a clip, the
Canvas shows the frame
at the current edit point.
Later clips in the
sequence are unaffected.
They do not ripple to the
left to fill in the gap. Resulting gap After
You can also achieve the same results by opening a sequence clip in the Viewer and
setting a new In or Out point. The clip changes duration in the Timeline, as long as the
new In or Out point doesn’t cause an adjacent clip to be overwritten.
722 Chapter 45 Learning About Trimming Clips