Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 383)

48 Part I Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
To create a merged clip from two or more clips in the Browser:
1 In the Browser, select all the synchronized clips you want to merge.
2 Choose Modify > Merge Clips.
3 In the New Merged Clip dialog that appears, select a method with which to synchronize
the clips: In points, Out points, Timecode, Aux Timecode 1, or Aux Timecode 2.
4 Click OK.
A new merged clip appears in the Browser. Merged clips are named after the video clip.
Merged clips with no video are named after the topmost selected audio clip in the
Browser. In both cases, the word “Merged” is added at the end.
Duration of Merged Clips
The beginning, end, and overall duration of a merged clip depend on the method you
used to synchronize the original clips:
 If you synchronized all of the original clips using In points, the beginning of the
resulting merged clip corresponds to the In point you used, and all clips line up at
that point. The end of this merged clip corresponds to the end of the clip with the
latest timecode value.
Video
Merged clip
Audio
Audio