How to “cut” in FCP?

[Ben Oliver]

make your cuts, highlight them, and hit delete, the one on top of the arrow keyes, it’ll cut out the material and scoot your timeline down to the first point.

[Bret Williams]

Cmd+x is a “cut” much in the sense of copy and paste. You’ve now put that selection on the clipboard. In FCP the comand you’re looking for would be delete (lift) or shift+delete (cut).

[Bret Williams]

Or that. FCP calls it ripple delete. The delete key under F11/F12 is the lift key and holding shift makes it the ripple delete key.

[Frank Muldoon]

It is easy when you know how..

Thank You.

[Bret Williams]

I just looked at the menu and it lists these functions under sequence. ????

The actually call it lift and ripple delete these days. But they show the icon for the delete key over the numbers for lift. Actually, it’s pointed the other way, I guess meaning the delete key over under the f11/f12, but that key doesn’t say anything except “delete.” Very freakin confusing if you’re trying to learn.

They might put them under the edit menu as well, since that’s what you’re doing. Editing!

[Kevin Monahan]

The “del” key under the HELP button will also do a ripple delete.

BTW, I always wondered why Apple changed “Delete” to “Lift” while they didn’t change “Ripple Delete” to “Extract”. 😉

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[Misha Aranyshev]

Command-Shift-X ripple-cuts. Command-Shift-V inserts (ripple pastes). Delete (Backspace) leaves the gap, Shift-Delete closes. There is a consistency.

[Frank Muldoon]

Command Shift X doesn’t work on my FCP5.

[Tom Wolsky]

You don’t need the Cmd key. Shift-X ripple cuts. Shift-V ripple pastes.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Misha Aranyshev]

Oops! Mea culpa