To remove an audio segment, you click it with the Lift/Overwrite tool and press the Delete key. The segment stays in place. You press Delete a second time and the segment is removed as expected. Why?

To remove an audio segment, you click it with the Lift/Overwrite tool and press the Delete key. The segment stays in place. You press Delete a second time and the segment is removed as expected. Why?

• A. The first deletion moves the segment to the clipboard
• B. The segment contains a clip gain adjustment, and the first deletion removes it
• C. Delete must be pressed twice to confirm the action
• D. The audio is linked to video and must be unlinked first

Answer: (B)

Clip gain adjustments attached to the audio segment are separate data from the clip itself. When you use the Lift/Overwrite tool and press Delete, Avid first clears any clip gain on that segment, leaving the segment in place. Only after those adjustments are removed does a second Delete remove the actual clip. So the first press seems to do nothing to the segment because it’s deleting the clip gain, not the clip, and the second press completes the deletion. If there were no clip gain on the segment, a single Delete would remove the clip right away.

Clip gain adjustments attached to the audio segment are separate data from the clip itself. When you use the Lift/Overwrite tool and press Delete, Avid first clears any clip gain on that segment, leaving the segment in place. Only after those adjustments are removed does a second Delete remove the actual clip. So the first press seems to do nothing to the segment because it’s deleting the clip gain, not the clip, and the second press completes the deletion. If there were no clip gain on the segment, a single Delete would remove the clip right away.