remove all gaps / ripple all

[Steven L. gotz]

No.

I understand why you would want it, but you might want to consider a change in workflow if you need to do that on a regular basis.

[Craig Howard]

Havent tried this myself but …try SHIFT-CLICK(or whatever it is for multiple select) all the gaps then SHIFT DELETE

Let us know and good luck.

[Mike Velte]

Craig’s suggestion does not work. I am with Steve…how did you get all those gaps? Premiere has tools and commands that permit editing in the timeline while rippling the changes at the same time. The Extract command (‘) will remove frames from the timeline and ripple the delete. Use the i and o keys to set in and out points in the timeline and target the right track, then hit the ‘ key.

[Frank Amsden]

Hmm. You don’t have gaps on FX tracks between sound effects? We’re not editing on a Steenbeck with blank leader between the FX. Excuse the film referance.

[Jared Smith]

I know this is an ancient question, but it still shows up in Google, so it’s probably worth answering. There is a way to remove all the gaps at once. Here’s what you do:

1) If you don’t have an empty video track, create one.
2) Put a video in the empty track that spans the entire area with the gaps that need removing.
3) Select all the footage that needs gaps removed and drag it onto the new track so that it cuts holes in the video (take care to move it only vertically).
4) Move the still-selected footage back to the original track (again, only vertically). The dummy video is now all chopped up to exactly match the gaps in the original footage.
5) Select all the dummy video and SHIFT-DELETE to ripple delete it. If necessary, delete the now-empty track.

If your project is so complex that other tracks prevent this strategy from working, you can always cut and paste the gapped-footage to an empty sequence to remove the gaps and then cut and paste it back.

[Tom Simone]

Thanks for the ingenious solution, worked great for me.

In response to previous posters who said change workflow, I ended up with lots of gaps after importing several hundred still images for a time lapse.

The gaps appeared when I reduced the clips’ duration.

Maybe I could have done something differently?

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[Zahoor Sakharkar]

wow that’s an ingenious solution and to further add to this if you have several tracks with gaps in them
a) create a transparent video as suggested spanning the entire timeline above your video tracks
b)Select all clips (with gaps) on one of your track using the track selection tool, then change to the normal select tool
c)Move those clips up into the transparent video and then back on their original track without moving them horizontally.
d) Repeat the process above with the clips on all the other tracks.
e)Then select the entire transparent video track and Shift+delete to close all gaps

ps you also get the gaps if you use trim tail/head to CTI – which is available in edius as standard trimming tool via keyboard keys N and M but the feature needs to be enabled through keyboard customisation in premiere (my shortcuts are M and N). If you haven’t tried it give it a try as I find it invaluable in speed editing

[Phillip Goodwin]

Perfect thank you!

[Carlos Cardoso]

A vídeo with the steps to Ripple delete all at same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8xCEHcqD0

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[Rex Lint]

Thanks man!!

This works great. Way to just answer the question instead of critiquing someone’s workflow. There are a millon ways to edit the right way.

Thanks for the info man!!

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