About subclips

A subclip is a section of a master (source) clip that you want to edit and manage separately in your project. You can use subclips to organize long media files.

You work with subclips in a Timeline panel like you do master clips. Trimming and editing a subclip is constrained by its start and end points, but you can adjust it to include more or less of the master clip.

Subclips reference the master clip’s media file. If you delete or take a master clip offline and keep its media on disk, the subclip and its instance remain online. If you take the original media off disk, the subclip and its instances go offline. If you relink a master clip, its subclips remain linked to the original media.

If you recapture or relink a subclip, it becomes a master clip, and all ties to the original media are broken. The recaptured media includes the subclip’s referenced portion of the media only. Any instances of the subclip are relinked to the recaptured media.

You cannot make the following types of clips into subclips:

Selections of multiple clips,
Titles, still images, synthetic clips,
Sequence clips,
Grouped clips,
Soft-linked clips.

To use a master clip and its subclips in another project, import the project that contains the clips.