cutting out time through all tracks

[Phil Peacock]

I take it you are familiar with ‘ripple editing’? ‘Control L’ is the keyboard short cut or use the toggle switch on your toolbar. This is a valued attribute of NLE editing.

Just be careful you do not move clips out of sync!!

[Michael O’connor]

Thank you for your response, Phil.

Yes I am familiar with ‘ripple editing’and yes I agree it is a valued attribute.

I apologize for not making my question clear. My question was how do I make a split through all track layers at the point I want to begin taking a section out of all of them, and then the point I want the section to end, and deleting the selected section through all track layers so that ripple can work? I thought using ctrl A (selecting all tracks), placing the cursor where the start point would be and hitting ‘s’ for split, then doing the same for the end point of where I want the section to end would work but it doesn’t seem to.

Thanks for any ideas.

[Phil Peacock]

Gotcha. Well, as I understand it, the process you have identified is what should work. Once you have selected the region on ALL tracks that you want to delete, and making sure that ‘auto ripple’ is toggled on, simply select the topmost clip’s region for deletion, hold shift and then select the bottommost clip’s region for selection, hit delete and it ‘should’ result in what I think you are hoping for.

Good luck.

[Michael O’connor]

Super!! Worked like a champ. Thanks for you help.