Restore words you cut

Cutting in Rooster never deletes anything from your recording. A cut is a note in the project saying which stretch to skip, so any cut can be taken back, however long ago you made it.

Find a cut

Every cut leaves a ¦ mark in the script, where the words used to be - including the ones made by removing filler words or shortening pauses. Hover over a mark to see how much was removed. On the timeline there is no gap: the video after a cut simply moves up to close it.

Bring a cut back

Either:

• Click the ¦ mark, then press Restore in the bar that appears over it; or
• right-click the ¦ mark and choose Restore removed media, which shows how long the cut was.

The whole cut comes back - the words, the stretch of video and audio under them, and any captions over them - and the playhead moves to it. If your selection touches more than one ¦ mark, Restore is not offered; select one mark at a time.

Undo instead

Undo (⌘Z) takes back your last edit, whatever it was, and the Edit menu names it. A batch - a set of filler words, or every shortened pause - is one step, so one Undo restores all of it. Redo is ⇧⌘Z.

Not a cut: removed from the transcript

Edit > Remove from Transcript (⌥Delete) takes words out of the script but leaves the video playing through them, so it leaves no ¦ mark and there is nothing to restore. Undo it with ⌘Z.