Removing a clip or a range of frames from the program

Editing Video > Editing a video program > Removing a clip or a range of frames from the program

You can remove an entire clip or a range of frames from the Timeline in two ways:

Lifting removes frames from the program and leaves a gap of the same duration as the frames you remove.

Extracting removes frames from the program and closes the resulting gap by ripple deletion.

These methods are most useful when you want to remove frames from the middle of a clip or across multiple clips on the same track. If you just want to remove frames from one end of a clip, simply trim the end of the clip (see Editing a clip that exists between other Timeline clips).

To remove frames without affecting other clips (lift):

Do one of the following:

To remove an entire clip, select the clip in the Timeline and press the Delete key.

To remove a range of frames, use the program controller to specify the In and Out points to remove, and click the Lift button (

) in the Monitor window.

To remove frames and close the resulting gap (extract):

Do one of the following:

To remove an entire clip, select the clip in the Timeline and choose Timeline > Ripple Delete.

To remove a range of frames, use the program controller to specify the In and Out points to remove, and click the Extract button (

) in the Monitor window.

To delete all clips on one track:

1 Select the track select tool ().

2 Click the first clip in the track, and press Delete.

Note: You can also delete a track; see Adding, naming, and deleting tracks.

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