Managing Your Work Environment > Setting Preferences > Desktop Preferences >
Editing

Use these preferences for editing on the Desktop.

(a) Editing Option box

Soft Edits button
  Enable the Soft Edits button to enable the soft edit features of Flame. When this button is enabled, heads and tails are retained when editing clips together.
Soft Cuts button
  Enable the Soft Cuts button to preserve head and tail frames when you cut clips on the Desktop.
Audio Follows Video button
  Use the Audio Follows Video button to specify how audio is edited when you gesturally edit clips. When this button is enabled, gestural edits such as cuts and splices are applied to both video and audio tracks. When it is disabled, gestural edits are applied to video elements only. Many gestural editing options are affected by the status of this button. See Cutting Clips.
Editing Option box
  Use to set the mode for editing clips.

Select: | To:
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Drag & Drop | Enable drag and drop operations only (moving, copying, and deleting clips).
Gestural Editing | Enable drag and drop operations and gestural editing operations (cutting, copying, insert edits, replace edits).
Gest. Editing Off | Disable gestural editing and drag and drop operations.

See Gestural Editing on the Desktop.