Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 687)

352 Part III Fine-Tuning Your Edit
3 Drag to the left to create a gap in your sequence (by making the clip shorter) or to the
right to cover an existing gap (by making the clip longer).
You can also achieve the same results by opening a sequence clip in the Viewer and
setting a new In or Out point. The clip changes duration in the Timeline, as long as the
new In or Out point doesn’t cause an adjacent clip to be overwritten.
Extending and Shortening Clips in the Timeline
A convenient way to extend or shorten a clip in the Timeline is to tell Final Cut Pro to
adjust an edit point to the current position of the playhead. An extend edit moves an
edit point between two clips to the playhead position in the Timeline.
Note: Although these are often referred to as extend edits, you can just as easily
shorten clips with this method.
As you drag to adjust the length
of a clip, the Canvas shows the
frame at the current edit point.
Later clips in the
sequence are unaffected.
They do not ripple to the
left to fill in the gap.
Resulting gap
After
Before edit
After edit
(extend)
A
A
Before edit
After edit
(shorten)
A
A