ABSTRACT
Again, we should differentiate between traditional film terms and their altered meanings in the electronic realm. Where a lift typically refers to the deletion of part or all of a scene, Avid altered the term to mean a type of cut where a shot is removed, leaving a gap of the same length. Though it is possible to lift an entire scene, editors generally use the lift function to remove a single shot. Either way, a gap remains behind. On Avid, using the extract function removes a shot and closes the gap, much like the ripple delete function in Final Cut Pro. To return an excised shot to another position in the timeline, the Final Cut Pro editor uses paste, which is what Avid refers to as overwrite. To insert a shot between two others, FCP editors use paste insert, which Avid refers to merely as insert.
