Apple Final Cut Express HD: Getting Started - Manual (Page 104)

104 Chapter 6 Fine-Tuning Your Edit
3 In the Timeline, move the playhead to the location in your sequence where you want
the clip to start (the sequence In point).
If you don’t define any In and Out points in your sequence, the Canvas or Timeline
playhead will serve as the edit point.
4 Now, if you do an overwrite edit, you’ll see that the duration of your clip, defined by the
In and Out points in the Viewer, has been edited into the sequence.
As you can see, defining only three points—the In and Out points in the Viewer and the
sequence In point in the Canvas—gives you total control of the edit that’s performed.
Move the playhead to the
location in the sequence where
you want the clip to start.
The new clip starts where
the playhead was.