Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 110)

110 Chapter 5 Basic Editing
Click the Play Around Current Frame button in the Canvas to see how the split edit works. 4
Play Around Current
Frame button
When you click the Play Around Current Frame button, playback begins just before the
current playhead position and continues just past the playhead. This provides an easy
way to check your work.
Create an L-cut, in which the video precedes the audio:
Make sure linked selection is still off. (If linked selection is on, click the Linked Selection
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button to turn it off.)
Press R to select the Roll tool, if it’s not already selected.
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Drag the video edit point between Sample Clip 2 and Sample Clip 3 backward in the 3
Timeline, as you see in the illustration below.
Now the clip’s video starts before the audio.
Click the Play Around Current Frame button in the Canvas to see how the split edit
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works. You can also make split edits by rolling the edit points on audio tracks forward
or backward.