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delete gaps
is there a way to delete all gaps in my timeline?
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7 Replies
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Short answer:
Sorry, no.Slightly longer, more informative answer:
By definition, you can’t really ‘delete’ gaps because there’s nothing there to delete, that’s why they’re gaps! You have to close each gap, one at a time. To try to speed things up, hit the Home key to bring you to the head of your timeline, then Shift-g to go to the next gap, and Control-g to close it. Wash, rinse, repeat till done.The above assumes that you have a gap that’s in both picture and sound in each place. If you don’t, well, then you’ve got some additional work to do because you need to find a way to maintain synch while you find a way to fill or close your gaps. In that case, good luck!
BTW, the snide answer would have been ‘Umm… don’t make them?’
Arnie
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gaps happen.
to help maintain sync as you close gaps where the sound and picture are not the same size, use the “all tracks forward” selection tool (‘tttt’), then drag everything over to close the gap to where you want it. It helps to keep ‘snapping on’ and keep your video/audio tracks heights small so you can see everything in your timeline.
Boyd
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hmmm,
what i always do is place 2 clips above the topmost layer, one at the start of the timeline and the other at the end. Then select the area between these 2 clips (it will turn grey) and keep on pressing backspace. The clips below it will lose their gaps. However, those clips which have different audio and video lengths will keep their gaps to remain in sync.
hope this helps.
dzul
season’s greetings 2 everyone! Great creative farm u’ve got here 😉
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dzul, man that is too cool. where did you find out how to do this, i.e. is it well known feature or just a fluke? either way it sure enough works!
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haha!
discovered it by chance, thus, a fluke! 🙂
dzul
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[dzul sungit] “discovered it by chance, thus, a fluke! :-)”
More likely a bug! 😉
Arnie
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[Arniepix] “More likely a bug! ;-)”
There was a bug in Photoshop 7, then there was a fix, then it became a feature. I never did the fix because the bug saved me some time. Basically, in Photoshop 7, if you didn’t update it for bug fixes, if you had transparancy in your image and saved it as a targa or tiff, it automatically saved the transparency to the file and it truly would be transparent in Combustion or After Effects. The updates “repaired” the bug which forced you to create an alpha channel. Now, you have a check box option to “Save Transparency” in the “Save As” dialogue.
dzul’s bug might be a feature in FCP 6. Who knows?
Gary
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