Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 495)

160 Part II Rough Editing
Performing a Replace Edit
A replace edit is a specialized form of overwrite edit. A replace edit places the frame at
the current Viewer playhead position at the Canvas/Timeline playhead location in your
sequence. You can use a replace edit to:
 Edit a clip into your sequence so that the current frame in the Viewer is placed at the
current playhead location in your sequence
 Quickly replace an entire shot that’s already in your edited sequence
 Resynchronize a video or audio clip item with an unlinked clip item in an adjacent track
For example, if you have two clips, each of which shows a different camera angle of the
same action, you may decide you want to replace the shot currently used in the
Timeline with the other angle. You can place both the Viewer and Timeline playheads
on frames where the action matches in each shot, and then replace the sequence clip
with the clip from the Viewer.
Replace edits follow a few special rules:
 Replace edits use the current playhead positions in the Timeline and the Viewer to
place the source clip in the Timeline.
 Replace edits never use clip In and Out points specified in the Viewer. If these points
have been set, they will be ignored.
 By default, a replace edit uses the duration of the sequence clip intersected by the
Timeline playhead. However, if you set sequence In and Out points, the resulting
sequence clip duration is determined by these points.
Note: If you do set In and Out points in the Timeline, they will be used even if they
span multiple clips, as long as there’s enough media on either side of the playhead in
your source clip.
In and Out points
spanning multiple clips