You can apply many types of edits to clips on the Desktop—splitting clips in two, splicing clips together, and adding dissolves and timewarps.

Editing functions such as splicing clips create soft edits, which you can modify any time until you commit them. Soft edits created on the Desktop can be brought into the timeline in either the Player or Batch for further manipulation.

Some Desktop editing operations can be accomplished in two ways—by using menu commands and by using drag and drop gestures with the mouse or stylus. For these cases, this chapter describes both methods.

Most Desktop editing operations can be performed on either collapsed or uncollapsed clips. The procedures in this chapter are for uncollapsed clips. For collapsed clips, you must select your in point, out point, and target frames by scrubbing through the collapsed clip until the desired frame is visible. For information, see Collapsing and Expanding Clips.