Lifting and Extracting - Workshop

A simple cut in the timeline is when you choose a selected clip in the timeline right click and click cut. When you do this, the other clips stay where they are and there is a gap where the cut clip used to be. A ripple edit is almost the same as a cut but when you ripple delete, the remaining clips to the right slide over to fill in the gap and the the overall time of the video is shortened. Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut two clips at the same time. To do this, you choose an inpoint and outpoint in the program panel and click either "extract" or "lift". Lifting is like a cut and extracting is like a ripple delete in terms of what happens to the remaining clips. The video above is an example of an extract edit. I decided to extract the two clips where I did because there was a lot of time where the subject wasn't doing anything special and in order to keep the energy up, I decided to only show the most exciting parts.