Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 515)

For more information, see “Preparing a Sequence Order in the Browser.”
2 Drag the group of clips directly into your sequence in the Timeline.
The clips appear in your sequence according to how they’re organized in the Browser.
Doing Simple Insert and Overwrite Edits in the Timeline
When you drag clips to the Timeline, you can perform insert or overwrite edits. (For more
information about insert and overwrite edits, see
“Performing the Different Types of
Edits.” ) Each track in the Timeline is divided into two areas by a thin gray line. The region
of the track you drag the clip into determines whether an insert or overwrite edit is
performed.
Overwrite edit area
(lower two-thirds)
Insert edit area
(upper third)
As you move the pointer from one region of the track to the other, it changes to indicate
the type of edit—a right arrow for an insert edit and a down arrow for an overwrite edit.
Note: If you are dragging clips from the Browser, the corresponding edit button is also
highlighted in the Canvas window.
To drag a clip from the Video tab in the Viewer, click anywhere in the video picture in
the Viewer and drag. To drag a clip from the Audio tab in the Viewer, click the drag hand
and then drag.
Drag hand
Note: To drag a multiclip from the Viewer to the Canvas or Timeline, you need to hold
down the Option key while you drag in the Viewer.
515 Chapter 35 Drag-to-Timeline Editing