Maybe I’m miss understanding what you want to do but here are my thoughts.
Say you have a 5-minute clip but you need to cut a few sections of that 5 minutes out. Place the video in a pre-comp. Use the split feature to cut the clip and remove the unwanted parts. Make sure the clip doesn’t have holes in it and the clips play one after the other.
Go back to the main comp and add a speed change to your pre-comp to speed it up so it looks like a timelapse.
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