Originally Posted by dyna mo

i appreciate the help but same result.

the edit i did to the avi was clip out several minutes from the middle, i then used that timeline in the new sequence #2, highlighted it, went to the bin, selected it, right clicked, replace footage, found the original avchd file and clicked it, it clipped the end of the video off to make it fit, it did not clip out the middle section as it was edited.