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  Ripple Cut in After Effects

  Posted by Martyn Morris on July 27, 2010 at 8:15 am

  Hi there,

  I have a lot of clips to remove from the timeline and was wondering if anyone knows how to perform a Ripple Cut in After Effects as you can in Final cut??.

  Or if there are any scripts out there that would Ripple Cut??.

  This would save me a great deal of time.

  Thanks, Martyn

  Martyn Morris replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 6 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  July 27, 2010 at 10:08 am

  See “Remove part of the duration of a layer”.

  Found with this search.

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  Martyn Morris

  July 27, 2010 at 10:34 am

  Thanks for the response Todd.

  I have tried the solutions from the link you have sent but did not work. I thought the Extract Work Area. The gap is closed by ripple deletion would be the solution but unfortunately it left a gap.

  I’m using CS4 if that helps.

  Thanks Martyn.
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  Todd Kopriva

  July 27, 2010 at 11:06 am

  I just tried Edit > Extract Work Area, and it left no gap.

  If this isn’t working for you, please provide an exact, step-by-step account of what you’re doing and what’s happening. Screenshots would help.

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  Martyn Morris

  July 27, 2010 at 11:29 am

  Hi Todd,

  thanks for sticking with me on this.

  1 I select the layer I wish to remove.

  2 Edit > Extract Work Area

  3 Pull hair out as I’m left with a gap.

  Thanks, Martyn

  

  

  
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  Todd Kopriva

  July 27, 2010 at 11:32 am

  Ah. I see your problem. Read the instructions again. They instruct you to set a work area. The work area defines the duration (time span) that will be removed and then closed by ripple deletion.

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  Martyn Morris

  July 27, 2010 at 11:38 am

  Wow thanks Todd.

  Thanks for sharing your time to go though this with me.

  This should speed up my work.

  Thanks, Martyn

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