Answers.Body: <p>I'd lift the clip from the story line and then disable it with <kbd>V</kbd>. There's no other way to keep a clip in the timeline near the edit point without leaving empty space or affecting the timing of the cut.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Not the downvoter, but as you can see OP already mentioned this... Please explain your solution more in detail.
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Answers.Text: I understood OP as trying either or. Doing both works great. There's not other way to keep a clip in the timeline near the edit point without leaving empty space or affecting the timing of the cut.
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Body: <p>I'm editing a short movie, and there are clips that I'm considering cutting that I want to keep in place but not necessarily use. How can I deactivate a clip such that it doesn't occupy the storyline, but stays in place?</p>
  
  <p>"disabling" a clip (pressing <kbd>V</kbd>) doesn't do that- it still remains a blank part of the timeline. "Lift from timeline" doesn't seem to accomplish that either.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I could just leave the clips in place and disable them in a way that makes the playhead skip ahead when it reaches those clips, so that I can easily see what the movie looks like with those optional clips and without them.</p>
  
  <p>Any advice is much appreciated.</p>
  
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Title: How to move a clip aside for possible future use in FCPX?
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ThreadText: # How to move a clip aside for possible future use in FCPX?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-06-27)
  
  I'm editing a short movie, and there are clips that I'm considering cutting that I want to keep in place but not necessarily use. How can I deactivate a clip such that it doesn't occupy the storyline, but stays in place?
  
  "disabling" a clip (pressing `V`) doesn't do that- it still remains a blank part of the timeline. "Lift from timeline" doesn't seem to accomplish that either.
  
  Ideally, I could just leave the clips in place and disable them in a way that makes the playhead skip ahead when it reaches those clips, so that I can easily see what the movie looks like with those optional clips and without them.
  
  Any advice is much appreciated.
  
  **Tags:** final-cut-pro, final-cut-pro-x
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-06-27. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I'd lift the clip from the story line and then disable it with `V`. There's no other way to keep a clip in the timeline near the edit point without leaving empty space or affecting the timing of the cut.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Not the downvoter, but as you can see OP already mentioned this... Please explain your solution more in detail.  
  > **username_1**: I understood OP as trying either or. Doing both works great. There's not other way to keep a clip in the timeline near the edit point without leaving empty space or affecting the timing of the cut.  
  
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