Using FCP 4.5 Thanks for all the help so far James and Peter! I have a few more questions if you don't mind ... Let's say I captured one longer piece of video - several minutes long - and I wanted to cut it up into several clips - add some various filters to the different clips - and place them on the time line in whatever order. Question: what is the best way to manipulate one large clip and have it function as several smaller clips? - (the main point here is to not duplicate the actual file on the drive - and just use one master copy several ways). -- Thanks - RevDave Lists at domains4days.com [db-lists] Check out some great Domain Names at: http://www.domains4days.com