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Moving all clips at once?
Hey all,
I’m fairly experienced with Sony Vegas, but I’m jumping into Premiere Pro CS6 now and I’m running into some difficulty finding what (I hope!) is a fairly basic function of editing here:
In Vegas, there is a feature called “Ripple Edit” which will automatically move all clips at once when a clip is added or removed, or when the user moves a clip.
Obviously, I tried Premiere’s Ripple Edit tool, but unlike Vegas, Premiere’s Ripple Edit tool’s purpose appears to be moving all the clips before or after one that is altered (which is great), but not when a clip is simply moved (I hope that makes sense).
Am I correct in my understanding of Premiere’s Ripple Edit tool? If not, how can it be used to move all my clips when I drag one through the timeline? Or is there another way to automatically move every piece of video and audio in my timeline in unison, so that I don’t need to manually select them all? I’m sure there’s an obvious answer here, but I’m not finding it yet.
Help!
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Hi Eric,
Is the Track Select tool what you are looking for? You can grab all the clips on multiple tracks with it.Thanks,
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Well, that’s kinda what I’m looking for, I suppose — seems inelegant compared to the “Ripple Edit” toggle in Vegas, I have to say. But it’s certainly closer than what I’d found up to now.
Am I crazy, though? It seems to me there should be some sort of idiot-proof function which allows for altering, adding or removing clips in the middle of my timeline while keeping all of the remaining dozens (or hundreds!) of clips in the timeline automatically synced with one another. Does the user actually have to manually maintain all these clips?
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Switch to Mac and get FinalcutX. It excells in ripple.
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I’m not sure how things work in Vegas, but I’m using Avid Keys in Premiere CC, and the “Extract” and “Splice-in” modes work exactly like how you’re describing – adding or lifting out footage while pushing the remaining footage forward or back as needed.
It’s probably going to break a lot of existing muscle memory you have from Vegas, but if you’re fully making the switch to Premiere, maybe watch a basic editing tutorial and try to do things the “Premiere Way”…
Don’t switch to FCPX because it “ripples well”. All NLE’s ripple fine, it’s a basic feature.
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Thanks for your input. I’m definitely fully making the switch to Premiere, if for no other reason than that Vegas is the most crash-prone piece of software I’ve ever encountered. It’s actually quite good when it works, but I can’t tell you how many hours of work I lost banking on the hope that “maybe Vegas won’t crash this time”. So far, in the 10-12 hours I’ve had to monkey around with Premiere, I’ve had no performance issues whatsoever. Promising!
I’ll dig into the “Extract” and “Splice-in” modes immediately; sounds like precisely what I’m looking for.
Thanks again!
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[Eric Jones] “I’ll dig into the “Extract” and “Splice-in” modes immediately; sounds like precisely what I’m looking for.”
Those are the Avid terms for it – they’re mapped to the “X” and “V” keys in Premiere’s “Avid Keys” setup, maybe you can work backwards from there. Good luck!
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Excellent, thank you!
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Ripple edits are pretty standard to any NLE.
Sometimes it’s called Insert Mode vs Overwrite Mode.
. and , are the default keys for them in PPro…
so with source loaded and marked in your source viewer and at least:
1) your play head parked where you want the edit to occur
2) your target tracks selected where you want your video and audio to land….pow….
ripple away….
of course extract and lift are the record (seq) side ripple/non ripple removal….
as of the latest build of CC you should just be able to mark in and out on the timeline and then use ; or ‘ (delete and shift+delete) respectively…..
not in front of it at the mo….
but its most certainly in there….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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