[Liz Margoshes]

So are you saying that only after I “render” (which I take it means save in another format)(?) can I play this video without the “blankness” at the end?

It seems strange, because I can edit out portions all through the video and easily link them together by dragging them to the left,thereby “covering up” all the other “blanknesses” I’ve created, EXCEPT at the very end of the video, because now there are no more pieces left to drag over it?

It seems strange that, at the end, I”m left with a long piece of blankness that is the length of all the pieces I’ve taken out.

Does this make sense? maybe I’m supposed to be rendering before I save the file? It seems like there should be some easy way to do the equivalent of “justifying” as a text editor does, something like “hey, we’ve just done all this cutting and pasting, can’t you, the powerful editor, neaten it up a little more?”

Maybe that “rippling” function has something to do with this?

thanks,

Making My Way in the Dark here

[Liz Margoshes]

Thank you so much! I have now managed to expand time (!) and split the video in two. Then I deleted the second piece, the piece I didn’t want. However, deleting seems to erase the “content” from the time, but now when I play the video it is still “playing” that time, only it is blank. I trust you know what I mean (?). In other words, if I had a 30-second video, before, seconds 1 through 15 were red and seconds 15 through 30 were blue, now I have 15 seconds of red and the next 15 seconds are black, empty, but still “playing” as if there were something there. How do I “expunge” that time that is now empty and extra? I have used Audacity, the audio program, and the same thing happens. I have to do something along the lines of “trimming” I think, but then I always wind up erasing what I want and keeping what I don’t want. Ugh.

God, I have a feeling this makes no sense. I’m sorry.

THANK YOU for getting me this far!