Editing out one camera angle

I have the unfortunate problem that I have 5 camera angles (where the brightness levels stay approximately similar frame to frame, but are different between cameras) on one video stream (avi), ie camera 1 is on for a few frames, then camera 2 is on for a few frames etc (although the order in which they come changes.
I was wondering is there are a way to filter out just one camera angle (ie select multiple frames by brightness (or other) and then copy and paste them somewhere else).
I hope you understand what I am getting at. Essentially selecting a set of frames by its properties.
Many Thanks.
Ed
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Ed,
just to make sure I understand. You have imported an .avi file into FCP. And this clip is, a couple of seconds/minutes long. And you have a couple of seconds from camera 1, then a cut to camera 2, then a cut to camera 3 etc.....?
If that is the case, then nope, you can't do what you would like to do. (Hm, sounds like my parents when I was little....). Only thing you can do is go through the clip frame by frame, setting In and Out points and edit the smaller bits into the timeline. You could work with different timelines, one for each camera angle. Then you could either nest those clips or use the sequences themselves in a new sequence.
Hope this makes sense?
Cheers,
Colin

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