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• Select the Lock switch
Note: If no layers are selected, the following step removes the section from all unlocked layers.
Do one of the following:
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• To remove the section and leave a gap of the same duration as the removed section, choose Edit > Lift Work Area.
• To remove the section, choose Edit > Extract Work Area. The gap is closed by ripple deletion.
See also
"Set the work area" on page 116
"Select layers" on page 141
Place a layer in time
The layer duration bar represents the layer duration visually. The In, Out, and Duration columns in the Timeline
panel represent the layer duration numerically.
Note: To choose which columns are visible in the Timeline panel, choose Columns from the panel menu, or right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a column heading.
These procedures move the entire layer in time.
• To set the In point or Out point numerically, click the number in the In or Out column for the layer in the Timeline
panel.
• To move the In point or Out point to the current time, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the number
in the In or Out column for the layer in the Timeline panel.
• To move the In points of selected layers to the beginning of the composition, press Alt+Home (Windows) or
Option+Home (Mac OS).
• To move the Out points of selected layers to the end of the composition, press Alt+End (Windows) or Option+End
(Mac OS).
• To move selected layers one frame later, press Alt+Page Down (Windows) or Option+Page Down (Mac OS). To
move selected layers 10 frames later, press Alt+Shift+Page Down (Windows) or Option+Shift+Page Down
(Mac OS).
• To move selected layers one frame earlier, press Alt+Page Up (Windows) or Option+Page Up (Mac OS). To move
selected layers 10 frames earlier, press Alt+Shift+Page Up (Windows) or Option+Shift+Page Up (Mac OS).
• To move the entire layer in time by dragging, drag the layer duration bar to the left or right. To snap the layer
duration bar to significant points in time (such as markers, or the start or end of the composition), Shift-drag the
layer duration bar.
Note: When you drag a layer in the Timeline panel, the Info panel displays the name, duration, change in time, and In
and Out points for the layer.
Before and after dragging the duration bar
for layers that you do not want affected by the extraction. Press F2 to deselect all layers.
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