Dragging video clips down into audio clips territory??

Now this is intriguing.
I didn't even think it was possible.  Seems like this editor has dragged video clips down (at least one track down, if there were tracks) below the line I always assumed was VIDEO ABOVE, AUDIO BELOW.  So this film has a whole bunch of video clips below the storyline.  And we can still see them.  I couldn't quite figure out her logic, though I'm sure it's legit, she's a great filmmaker ... she wanted to be able to remember (by seeing, even though they are invisible to the timeline) chunks of certain clips, interviews, that she wasn't using currently, but that she might want to use later.
But what might be the Apple logic for being able to do this? Very curious.
Ben

Thank you Tom.
Very interesting.  Now I can try to imagine how I can use this ... I'm enjoying X, after initially hating it, now if only for the fact I keep being surprised by it.
Very much appreciated,
Ben

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