Use the Link buttons to affect how dissolves and cuts behave during slide and trim operations.

Depending on the Link option that is enabled, the transition or cut is linked to the element being slid or trimmed. This is useful if you have transitions such as dissolves that you want to keep with the trimmed element. For examples of slide operations using Link Transition and Link Cut, see Trimming Dissolves.

From the Batch timeline, the Link options also have an effect when copying and moving clips with dissolves to the Batch schematic:

• When Link Cut is enabled, or both options are disabled, the dissolve is not copied with the clip.
• When Link Transition is enabled, the dissolve is copied with the clip.

The status of Link Transition also affects the result of hard committing a selection of adjacent elements. If you select adjacent elements and hard commit them with Link Transition enabled, all the elements are committed into a single element and the handles are removed. If you select adjacent elements (without selecting their cut), and commit them with Link Transition disabled, all the elements are committed and the handles removed, but the elements remain separate.