Getting Started Owner's manual

Chapter 6 Fine-Tuning Your Edit 103
Making Life Easier With Three-Point Editing
When you set up a series of In and Out points to prepare for performing an edit,
Final Cut Express HD follows the principles of three-point editing.
To set up an edit, you don’t need to specify both In and Out points for your clip in the
Viewer, and In and Out points for that clip’s destination in the Canvas or Timeline. All you
have to do is to set up any three of the four needed edit points, and Final Cut Express HD
calculates the fourth one.
The following basic examples show you how three-point editing works.
Example: Editing a Specific Clip Into Your Sequence
The simplest way to perform a three-point edit is to specify In and Out points for a clip
in the Viewer, and then specify the destination In point in your sequence by positioning
the playhead in the Canvas:
1 Open a clip into the Viewer.
This is your source clip.
2 Specify In and Out points for your source clip in the Viewer.
Out pointIn point