Lifting And Extracting

A simple cut in the timeline means you are making a cut in the timeline itself. When you cut, the other clips in the timeline will leave a gap between the two clips.

A ripple edit is when you have removed a clip without leaving a gap within your clips. You do this by right clicking the selected clip of your choice. When you ripple delete, the other clips to the right of the deleted clip you will connect to the clips (left).

Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut a clip at one time. To do this, you choose the in point and out point of the second screen of the program and select either the lift or extract function.

Lifting is like cutting, while extracting is like a ripple delete, in terms of what happens to the clips in the timeline such as the others you had chosen.

This is an example of an extracting edit. I decided to extract the two clips where I did because the removal of the clips left the other remaining clips with a more quick paste flowy feel which everthings appears more rapid than before.