Work Area

The work area in Railcut defines the range of time that the Lift and Extract operations act on. Railcut gives you keyboard shortcuts to set and jump to the work area quickly.

Setting the work area

Mark In

Move the playhead where you want the work area to start. Press I.

Mark Out

Move the playhead where you want the work area to end. Press O.

Use I and O together to define a range:

1. Park the playhead at the beginning of the section
2. Press I
3. Move the playhead to the end
4. Press O

Mark Clip

Press X with the playhead over one or more clips. Railcut sets the work area to exactly match the duration of the clips touching the playhead.

If the playhead touches clips on multiple tracks, the work area spans the earliest in point to the latest out point across all those clips.

Jumping to the work area

Shortcut	Action
Shift+I	Jump playhead to work area In point
Shift+O	Jump playhead to work area Out point

Lift

The Lift command removes the work area range from targeted tracks, leaving a gap:

1. Set the work area with I/O or X
2. Make sure the tracks you want to affect are targeted
3. Press ; (semicolon)

Railcut deletes all unlocked clips within the work area range on targeted tracks. Clips to the right stay where they are.

Extract

The Extract command removes the work area range from all unlocked tracks and closes the gap:

1. Set the work area with I/O or X
2. Press ’ (apostrophe)

Railcut deletes all clips within the work area range on all tracks and shifts everything to the right of the range leftward to fill the gap. This is the ripple version of Lift.

Caution

Extract operates on all tracks regardless of targeting or lock state. Locked tracks are not shifted — if a locked clip would create a collision, the extract may leave a gap on that track.