The footage bin

Deleting a scene, or changing what its clips branch on, never destroys a recording. Takes that no longer have a slot move to the Footage bin, which appears at the top of the tab with a count as soon as it holds anything. So does a take you remove with Delete this version.

Putting a take back

Open it, pick a recording, and Reuse this clip attaches it wherever you want: choose which scene it belongs to, then which clip it fills, and press Attach clip. If that slot already holds a take, the old one goes back to the bin rather than being overwritten.

You can also start from the other end: open a clip, and Use an unassigned recording lists what is in the bin.

This is also the safety net behind Sync with result pages, in the … menu, which lines your scenes up with the modules on your pages. It says how many scenes it will add, how many it will remove, and how many recordings move to the bin before it does anything.

Deleting a recording for good

The bin keeps a take until you delete it yourself. Delete, in the Reuse this clip window, removes the recording permanently — you can’t undo it.