How do you remove a Blade cut?

Do you mean create a compound clip? Something tells me that isn't the best option.

I want to get rid of it because I placed it where I don't want it & need to make another Blade cut near it. There's no reason for it to be where it is, and it's going to create confusion for me down the line.

I appreciate the suggestion. I know that I could do something like that, but that is a lot of trouble to go through at the point I am at. I'm pretty sure there's a simple way to just get rid of the cut. It may be that there's a way to join two clips together whether they were ever one or not.

I don't know what to tell you. It isn't working for me when I try it. Maybe it's got something to do with the other edits performed. Regardless, it's like bringing the whole clip in again--it's a lot of work to accomplish something that I am almost certain can be done very easily.

Hi Andy--

It sounds like you're recommending one of the things salty777 recommended (sorry salty777, I guess I was really expecting a different answer). I'll try it again, but I don't think it was working for me. Those key combinations you gave are not working for me. Are those part of the default keyboard commands? When I press them, I get nothing.

I guess I was really expecting that you'd somehow be able to highlight the cut and delete it. But I guess the cut really isn't a thing like a transition is. I worked through some FCPX tutorials, and I could swear they addressed how to make two neighboring clips into one clip like they were always that way. And I don't remember it being creating a Compound Clip.

One more thing: I have some loopable beats. I can paste the same beat clip over and over again to make it loop. And then I guess I could make a compound clip out of all them, but is that the way you would do it? If you were doing that, would you create a separate project in FCPX and put them all together to achieve the desired length, and then Export Media to create a full clip that you'd bring into another project?

Hi Tom--

I'm confused. I have two audio clips. One is a connected clip to the other. If I park the playhead over an edit (the spot where I cut with the Blade tool) in what I guess is called the primary clip and press the \ key, the edit is selected.

But, if I try to do the same thing with a Blade cut edit that I made in the connected clip, it doesn't work. Is there some reason it only works with the primary clip and not the clip I connected to it?

Yeah, that doesn't seem to work. I can select the Trim tool and click an edit in the primary clip and select it (so that the yellow brackets are facing both ways), but I can only get a yellow bracket in one direction clicking in the same way on the connected clip.

This is probably something basic about the differences in what you can do with a connected clip that I'm just not getting.

Thanks to all three of you who helped me with this. I started out with an idea that this could somehow be done much more easily, and that kept me from understanding what you guys were telling me. I really expected it to be something like getting rid of a transition by clicking on it and pressing delete.