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(Left) A selection that includes parts of two clips, (Right) The result of using Trim to Selection to eliminate the heads and tails outside of this selection.
Moving and Overwriting Clips
There are a number of ways to move clips in the Timeline. Clips can be nudged and moved within a track, changing the timing of that clip’s position in the edit or they can be moved up or down to other tracks.
— To move one or more selected clips in the Timeline: Drag any clip in the Timeline to any other position. If you’re in Focus mode, you must drag using the bottom half of the selection. If you drag a clip to overlap another clip, the clip you’re dragging overwrites the clip you’re moving it over.
— To nudge one or more selected clips in the Timeline by frame using the keyboard: Make a selection, then press the Comma key (nudge 1 frame left) or Period key (nudge 1 frame right) to roll the selected edit to the left or right. Shift-Comma and Shift-Period nudges by 5 frames.
— To move one or more selected clips up or down to other tracks at the same time: Make a selection, then hold the Shift key down while dragging one of the selected clips up or down in the Timeline to lock their position in time while moving them to other tracks. Or, you can hold the Option key down and press Up or Down Arrow.
Sync Offset Indicator
Audio clips in the Fairlight page display an “out-of-sync” or sync offset indicators when they’re moved out of sync with the video items they’re linked to.
Subframe Nudging
In the Preferences/User/Editing panel under General Settings you can change the nudge amount by either subframes or by milliseconds for the Fairlight page. These are completely user definable so that you can type your desired nudge amount into the corresponding box.
Be sure to fully investigate this settings panel, which includes pre-roll and post-roll settings and other useful Fairlight adjustments.