Re: There's gotta be a better way!!!

Well I don't know how you would do this in FCP, but there is always more than one way to do something on the Avid. You have mentioned a few possibilities, but when it comes to moving around a big edited piece of the timeline, I just mark and in and an out point, select the tracks that I want to include in the move, and then, on a Mac I believe it would be Command(could be control or other)Extract or Lift (depending on if you want to leave a black hole to deal with later, or if you want the timeline to do a pull up so there is no hole). The Command key (or whichever it is) will automatically send the chunk you have cut out to the left monitor for you to put back into the timeline where you want it to go. If you need to do some other stuff before you put it back into the timeline, then before you extract or lift it out, subclip it to a bin where it will be safe until you are ready to put it back in. As for the sync, I always have my synclocks on. That's just my personal preference to work that way. You may have to fix the music tracks at the cut points but everything should stay in sync.

Chaz Shukat
Author of "EDITING REALITY"
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