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Editing
I am new to final cut, only been using it maybe a year, but I am wondering if there is something to make this task that I am always encountering much easier.
It may be easy – maybe I’m just too much of a noob to know the answer.
If I have multiple edits in my timeline but they are not all aligned. There is empty space between all of my cuts that I have made. Audio and video are currently linked. My question is this.
Is there a way to select all of the clips and make them automatically butt up against each other so that they become a clip with no space between? I don’t want them to become “one clip” like with a merge clip, just to get them all to align themselves in an easier way than me having to move each clip independently and manually to touch the other clip.
May be a dumb question, but I could really use some help! (and yes, I tried searching google and the manual already to no avail).
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6 Replies
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You found nothing that references closing the gap? Go back and look.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, but I must say, did you have to do it in such a snarky fashion? The reason I didn’t find anything about it is because, like I said, I am new to Final Cut and therefore not familiar with the terms used. I was searching for things such as
“merge edits”
“align multiple cuts”and the like. So thanks for putting me on the right track, but I am still a little lost. I have the close gap function working and it is still going to save me tons of time, but what I can’t figure out now is how to do that to a whole bunch of gaps at once rather than having to still click on each gap and then close it. It seems I cannot select multiple gaps at once and I can’t get the ripple delete function to do anything like that either.
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Control-G will close a gap when you position the playhead above it, you can also click on a gap to highlight it and hit delete, or control click on a gap and choose Close Gap. There is no command for closing all gaps at once.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
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Thanks a bunch David! I appreciate the help. Doesn’t a “close all gaps” function seem like something that should be around? Seems simple…I wonder if they will ever add something like this.
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hi scott.
there IS an easy (but weird) way to Close All Gaps, but it only works if you have a VERY simple timeline.
no split edits allowed. (where picture and sound are not cut at the same point)select all the clips you want to “de-gap”
drag them to the CANVAS and drop them into the red Overwrite window.then selected clips will all be re-edited back into the timeline, with no gaps.
they will be edited to the timeline starting from where your playhead is,
and the original ones will still be there,
so there will be some tidying up to do.shortcuts are great, too.
Shift G is move to next gap,
Control G is close gap.nick
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i’ve mapped my close gap to “E” so it’s a one button function for me.
With that, if I have multiple gaps, it’s down, e, down, e, down, etc.
very quick.
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