Ripple delete

[Matt Callac]

Shift delete and shift x will do a ripple.
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[Paul Binge]

Tried shift X and still a gap. Clips to right do not move to close up.
Why? This is not in book or help and I can’t see a setting which could be wrong.

[Shane Ross]

Is the track you are deleting footage from not selected? What I mean by that, are the little rectangles next to the tracks…the AUTO SELECT buttons. Are they selected? Or clear? if clear, then RIPPLE DEL will not work.

Try the DEL key on the extended keyboard…under the HELP button.

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[Russell Lasson]

The delete under F13 should delete a clip and not close the gap.

The delete above the arrow keys deletes the clip and closes the gap.

If it isn’t working for you, check to see if all of your auto selects are on or if there are other clips interfering with removing the gap.

You could also create a new timeline, bring in a clip and put a could of edits in it and delete the middle part of the clip with both keys to see how they are different.

-Russ

[Matt Callac]

Yes, Shane is right, Auto Select must me on for the tracks to ripple. Also it will only ripple the length of the clip. It will not remove a gap that existed before you deleted the clip.
-mattyc

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[Paul Binge]

I tried making a new sequence. All is working fine until I add music. Then even with the Auto select controls only lit for the video and audio (not the music tracks), ripple delete leaves a gap.

This is driving me mad….

[Bob Flood]

the only way to get ripple delet to close the gap is to lock all the tracks you do not want to ripple

ie unless you are ripple ing every track, fcp will not close gaps that may result in the un selected tracks “colliding”

if i have a bunch of interviews on v and a1, and i edit a music loop on a2, i cannot ripple delete just the interviews if there is an edit in the music track later than where i am trying to delete. FCP sees this as a collision and will not allow you to ripple.

does this help?

bee eph

[Bret Williams]

If you’re trying to do it ala avid, first, make sure all the autoselect tracks are on. Then mark an in, mark an out. Press shift+delete. It’ll cut through all the tracks and bump them together.

The other big difference from Avid. In avid, it operates by default that no tracks are synced together. In other words, it will ripple delete and just let things go out of sync with no warning at all. You can, in Avid, sync all the tracks by turning on all the syncs.

FCP, by default, operates as if all the sync tracks are ON. So, the ripple delete you’re doing, would throw the video out of sync with the music track. So it doesn’t do it. To UNSYNC tracks, you lock them. Which of course keeps you from editing to them. But allows you to do what you’re asking.

If you’re like me, when I worked in Avid I considered my edits pure gold, and I wouldn’t want them to accidentally get knocked out of sync without warning, so I operated at ALL TIMES with sync locks on. To ripple delete I marked an in/out and cut through everything. Then made repairs to things like the music where applicable. So the switch to FCP was a breath of fresh air. They operated by default the way I liked.

[Tiborius]

Hi,

I too am just switching to FCP; from avid.
I am really annoyed at the way ALL tracks are somehow sync-locked.

Say I have cut Interviews on V1 and A1&A2,

Next I drop a few cutaways only on V2 (I like to keep it separate till the final cut)
I watch my sequence and want to cut a piece out of the cutaways track; ONLY the cutaways track, the IV is fine.
So I find the point I want gone, mark in and out, I make sure that only V2 is selected (or “auto selected” in FCP).
I then hit the ripple delete…….. but a blank space appears?!
It should RIPPLE DELETE right?
But for some unknown reason FCP decides that the other tracks are sync-locked?

I have turned off “linked selection”.

It works if I lock the other tracks, but that is a pain as in FCP I would have to lock the audio tracks first, then the other video tracks (why can’t we just “lock all but current track”?).

Why have an ‘auto select’ and the ability to turn off ‘linked selection’ if can not ‘ripple delete’?

There must be a way to turn off sync-lock?
Avid has it clearly in the timeline, and I have it always turned off.

Please help here as this seems to be the only really terrible ‘feature’ of FCP.

Tiborius