Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 417)

Chapter 28 Arranging Clips in the Timeline 417
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Deleting Clips from a Sequence
As you edit, you can delete items from your sequence at any time, provided that the
track you want to remove them from is not locked.
There are two ways to delete items from a sequence:
 Lift edit: Leaves a gap in the sequence.
 Ripple edit: Closes the gap from the deletion by moving all subsequent clips to the left.
Important: Removing clips from a sequence does not delete the original master clips
from the Browser, nor does it delete source media files from your hard disk
Deleting with a Lift Edit (Leaving a Gap)
Deleting with a lift edit (also called a lift delete) removes any selected items from the
sequence and leaves a gap. This is useful if you have a series of clips already edited into
your sequence and you don’t want to move them (for example, if they’re all
synchronized to a piece of music). If you want to remove one or more clips from the
middle of such a sequence, the lift delete is the best way to do so.
To remove a clip item and leave a gap:
1 Do one of the following:
 Select the clip item or range of items you want to remove using one of the
selection tools.
 Set In and Out points in the Canvas or Timeline, then make sure the Timeline is active.
2 Enable Auto Select for the tracks you want to affect.
Only clip items on tracks with Auto Select enabled will be deleted.
A B C
A C
Before edit
After edit
Gap
Selected clip