Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 352)

352 Part VI Rough Editing
Example: Backtiming a Clip Into Your Sequence
Instead of editing a clip into your sequence using clip In and Out points in the Viewer
and a sequence In point in the Canvas or Timeline, you can edit clips using only an Out
point in the Canvas or Timeline. This is called backtiming a clip.
Y ou can use this method
when you want to make sure a particular frame of a clip ends at a specific point in a
sequence. In the resulting edit, your source clip’s Out point is placed at the Out point
you set in your sequence, and the rest of the clip appears in your sequence before this
point, to the left:
1 Double-click a clip to open it in the Viewer. (This is your source clip.)
2 Specify In and Out points for the source clip in the Viewer.
3 In the Timeline, move the playhead to the point in your edited sequence where you
want your clip to end, and set an Out point.
In point
Out point
Set an edit point at the
location where you want
the clip to end.