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Deleting empty space
Hello,
Cutting within a clip, removing a some of it and deleting the newly created gap in clicking in the empty space and deleting is a pretty usual move. The condition being that no other clips overlaps that space, every other later clip should move back.
I don’t know why, and that might be due to a Conform operation I did on the main video track which has a different timecode that the rest of the video but know it does not work anymore, only the track from which I have selected the empty space is moving back the others do not follow.
Any ideas why ?
Davinci 15.
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Anything you want to move together needs to be linked. For example, I had about 75 subtitles on a timeline where each is only meaningful to a particular clip, just as the audio must be in the correct place. When I did as you did and cut a section out early in the timeline, used the delete gaps command, and immediately said, “OH $h!t” Quickly did and undo then linked the subtitles to the video and audio. I normally do all my editing before adding the extras, but it’s when you are almost done and find that spot that just doesn’t work that must be fixed that causes all the grief.
When you click on a video clip that also has audio in the timeline, the audio also highlights because they are linked. If you then right click the highlighted clips, at the very bottom of the menu that pops up you will see “Link Clips” with a check mark. If you uncheck that check mark you will separate the audio from the video. Conversely, if you want to link a new audio clip to that video clip you can lasso both clips, and when they are highlighted, right click and enable the check mark on the Link Clips.
To add my subtitles to my linked video and audio clips, I also lasso the corresponding subtitle clip, then right click and check mark the Link Clips. Essentially anything you link together will move together. Depending on how complicated your timeline is, it can either be rather simple or a lot of work.
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You may want to check your Auto select button: my guess for that particular track, this button is off. (see p523 & 584 of the manual v16)
Also remember if you select clip in your timeline, the Auto selector will be overridden.
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