Lifting & Extracting

Lifting & Extracting
A simple cut in the timeline means making a cut in the timeline. When you cut, the other clips in the timeline left a gap between clips.
A ripple edit is when you remove a clip without leaving a gap. You do this by right clicking the selected clip. When you ripple delete, the other clips to the right of the deleted clip connect to the left clips.
Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut a clip at one time. To do this, you choose the in point and out point and select either the lift function or extract function.

Lifting is like cutting, while extracting is like ripple delete, in terms of what happens to the other clips in the timeline.

This is an example of an extracting edit. I decided to extract the two clips where I did because the removal of the clips left the remaining clips with a good flow.