o make editing from notes, you can back to front, end to beginning, so don't lose the reference of time

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Yes, that is a work around for the first cut.

But I would still like to have reference to the original source to make sure key scenes do not end up on the cutting room floor on following cuts without re previewing though all the frottage. In large projects, with lots of split clips from the same source file, they all start to look the same . . .

IE I have 6 hours of footage from three GoPro cameras that were shooting continuously at the same time that I am pulling together and will need to get down to less than 15min. This will take multiple scrubs though cutting out non essential segments . . .

I could also annotate each clip in the time line by editing clip aliases, but that is will be labor intensive non value added step . . .

It would be best to be able to see the source file info that PD is using to define the clip . . .

I'm not sure I fully understand your workflow requirements but you can perhaps use multiple tracks. One track for the "reference" source, which remains untouched but acts as a reference, one track for the editing clip being split and, depending on how you work, a third to assemble the split clips or to dump the unwanted ones.

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Thank you for your suggestion efforts, but I do not see how that will help, as the edited tracks have lost their reference to the original tracks, and you always just view the original clips in the project library.

This Sounds like a feature request as this is standard in other editing programs.