Removing between and in and out point in the timeline

Thanks Tom.

I'll have between 3 and 6 layers at any point. I've tried command B but the problem with that is it only puts a cut on the primary storyline. It will cut more than that if I select all the layers. By doing that it's like a 5 or 6 step process to delete chunks of media in the timeline. I can't believe there isn't an easier way than that.

But what makes it worse as I have a long piece of audio only media that is for the whole show. Its a connected clip to the primary storyline. when making edits with command B and then deleting what is between the edits this main audio gets deleted from the edit forward. IT's like this audio becomes a connected clip right after the edit when command B is made. it looks connected to the next clip after the command B but it deletes when I delete the chunk between the command B.

This is so silly that I can't easily delete media from the timeline in this way. It's such a simple thing!

No MacvideoHD, that will only select one track or storyline at a time. I have 3 - 6 layers depending and I want to easily and accuratley delete a chunck of media that includes all the layers at once. I don't think it's possible.

Yes Tom I understand you can do that and that will add the edit where the playhead line is. But as I was saying that's like 5 or 6 steps to do that each time I want to delete a chunck of media in the timeline. And then I lose that audio. I couldn't put the audio in a primary storyline as it came later. I was rough cutting to one of the cameras.

I just cannot belive that deleting a chunk of media in the timeline really isn't easy or simple like it has been. That's not an unusual thing to want to do. I don't know what Apple as thinking with this.

Tom, I understand that FCPX brings new ideas to editing and I'm fine with that. But what I am wanting to do is something that is done all the time while editing. Say you have an interview that has been completed with broll and everything and the client decides there's several sound bites they want cut out along with broll. It should be a very simple thing to just remove those 5 seconds here, 15 seconds there. I'm just blown away how difficult this simple thing is. I see now it works that way, as in it doesn't work to do something so simple. Thanks for trying to help of course.

machdvideo, I couldn't trim the clip before because this is a hour long, 3 camera shoot. we put the whole show in, synced the 3 clips with synchronize clips. that worked well. I cut the whole show with camera audio and then put in the good audio when we got it later. that's 3 cameras (the main camera is in the primary storyline) and one audio clip that is now the main audio.

That's done and now there's pieces of the show to cut out to make it the right time. I know i can have primary and secondary storylines but it's all the same problem. No matter what kind of storyline it is there's no simple was to just select say 15 seconds (like I mentioned in Toms reply) and just delete that out. Had I known such a simple, simple thing isn't easily possible I would have used something else. This isn't uncommon to want to do when you edit, to cut out a chunk of stuff from the timeline!!

Thanks for your responses.