Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 372)

Chapter 2 Creating Subclips 37
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To create a subclip:
1 Open a clip in the Viewer.
2 Set In and Out points.
3 Do one of the following:
 Choose Modify > Make Subclip.
 Press Command-U.
Sometimes, you may be looking for a particular frame in a subclip, and realize that
although those frames existed in the original clip, they were left out when you created
the subclip.
If you’ve opened a subclip to a certain frame in the Viewer, but you’d rather find the
same frame in the original media file (perhaps to pick an In or Out point outside the
subclip limits), you can easily swap the two in the Viewer.
To open the original media file from which a subclip came:
1 Open the subclip in the Viewer.
2 Find the frame you want to match.
3 Do one of the following:
 Choose View > Match Frame > Source File.
 Press Option-Command-F.
Final Cut Pro opens the subclip’s entire media file as an independent clip in the Viewer.
The playhead is located on the same frame in the new clip as in the original subclip. To
make the independent clip in the Viewer into a master clip for editing, drag the clip
from the Viewer to the Browser.
A new subclip appears in
the Browser below the
master clip, defined
by the In and Out
points you set.