Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 573)

238 Part II Rough Editing
The resulting edit would look something like this:
Split edits can be used in many different situations—in dialogue scenes, like the one
described above, when cutting to illustrative B-roll footage during an interview, or
when transitioning from one scene to another.
How Split Edits Look in the Viewer and Canvas
The scrubber bar in both the Viewer and the Canvas is divided in half by a light gray
line. The upper half of the scrubber bar contains the video In and Out points, and the
lower half contains the audio In and Out points.
When you set simple In and Out points, each pair of audio and video In and Out points
joins to form small, inward-pointing triangles.
When you set video edit points that are different from the audio edit points, as you do
for a split edit, the upper half of each triangle marks a video In or Out point, and the
lower half marks the separate audio edit point, like this:
Audio edit point
Video edit point
Video track
Audio tracks
In point Out point
Video In
point
Audio Out
point Audio In
point
Video Out
point
Area of audio
included in edit
Area of video
included in edit