Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.1.2) - Manual (Page 115)

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Delete clips or ranges without affecting the total project duration and timing
If you want to remove clips from the Timeline but still maintain the total project duration and
timing, you can replace clips with gap clips. This method prevents any ripple edits.
1 Select the clips or range you want to remove.
2 Choose Edit > Replace with Gap (or press Shift-Delete).
Final Cut Pro replaces the selection in the Timeline with a gap clip.
Note: This method preserves connected clips. When you replace a clip with a gap clip, any
connected clips will be attached to the resulting gap clip.
Solo, disable, and enable clips
Sometimes, it’s helpful to compare how a sequence plays with and without certain clips. In
Final Cut Pro, you can quickly play one clip’s audio, excluding audio from other clips. This feature,
called solo, works by disabling the audio in all unselected clips in the Timeline. You can also
disable (rather than delete) selected clips, making them invisible and silent during playback.
Disabled clips do not appear in any output. You can just as easily reenable them.
Solo selected items
When you want to focus on a subset of clips in the Timeline in isolation, you can select the clips
and solo them.
1 In the Timeline, select the clips you want to isolate.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose Clip > Solo (or press Option-S).
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Click the Solo button in the upper-right corner of the Timeline.
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