Extracting and Lifting Segments
While the process for
Deleting Segments in the Sequence Timeline describes how to remove a segment for all sequence types, Sequences provide you with two alternative methods for removing content from your sequence: Lift and Extract.
When you lift a segment, you remove the selected material from the Sequence and leave an empty gap where the segment used to be. When you lift material, the overall duration of the Sequence remains the same.
When you extract a segment, you remove the selected material from the Sequence and any segments that follow the extracted material are shifted to the left by the same amount of time. For example, if you remove a 30 second segment, all edits on the same tracks are shifted back by 30 seconds. When you extract material, you shorten the duration of the Sequence.
To remove a segment using the lift feature:
1. Mark and In and Out point around the material that you want to remove from the Sequence.
2. 
Click the Lift button or press the Z key on your keyboard.
The selected material is removed from the Sequence and a gap is created in the timeline.
To extract a segment from the timeline:
1. Mark and In and Out point around the material that you want to remove from the Sequence.
2. 
Click the Extract button or press the X key on your keyboard.
The selected material is removed from the Sequence and all following edits on the same tracks are shifted by the same amount of time.