remove all gaps / ripple all

[Jayson Moo-young]

Did something like this a while back and couldn’t for the life of me remember what was done. 10/10 method. Thanks!

[Eddie Maldonado]

Thanks for chiming in on an “ancient” topic, Jared! Though for me it’s Option+Delete on a Mac. Perhaps it changed since you mentioned this 7 years ago lol. I’m late to the game…

For those wondering why on Earth we have so many gaps, I got used to collecting selects from a string out and nudging them up in FCP. Also if you’re prepping a sequence for color correct and you just need clips only, you could end up with a ton of gaps that you’d need to close. On FCP you could bookend the gap sequence at the head and tail with clips on V1 (everything else on V2) and then select the gap between the two clips on V1and just hold Delete till the gaps are closed. This works just as well.

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[Chris Vile]

Jo,
this is sooo awesome!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PERFECT SOLUTION !
Made my day.

Cheers
Chris

[Greg Leslie]

It doesn’t have to be transparent video, either. I usually use a Matte Color clip and make it red so I can spot any leftover pieces I may have left on the timeline.

[Austin Bollinger]

This worked perfectly for me! Sounds like a lot of steps, but really it only took 3 seconds–I used an adjustment layer as my dummy footage.

As for those wondering why we edit this way–I like to drag all of my B Roll into the timeline, cut the pieces I like, then slide the unused B Roll further down the timeline. Once I do this, I ripple delete all of my selected B Roll while leaving the gaps in the unused B Roll.

If I need more B Roll later, I can easily see what I’ve already used by seeing the gaps in the leftover footage.

Thanks again for the help!

[Mateus Ribeiro]

When we talk about computers shouldn’t be any “you can’t do this” or “change your workflow” answers. There are many reasons to end up with a timeline full of gaps. This is an important function and this thread has exactly 10 years old, Adobe should implement a simple script that does what is going on in the video (if it’s really that hard to detect the gaps). They even had this function already done on Adobe Encore…

[Christina Crawley]

This was a drop down menu feature in FCP so i think it is totally reasonable to expect the same out of Premiere.