Ripple still requires you to manually select he area and hit "delete". Isn't there a script that does this?

What you are asking for will ultimately lead you to the value and extra functionality that has been explored and brought to market by many other Vegas enthusiasts, IT code writers and s/w warehouses - and that's the world of Scripts and Extensions. It's what Vegas was waiting for. It started to happen about 8 (?) years back. I think I am correct in saying, it has made Vegas the envy of other NLE's.

OK, enough with the Vegas-Luuuuv...

Is there a single Vegas Button for this? - No. Is there a single pre-emptive Function in Vegas to do this? - Yes. As has been mentioned, it's called Ripple Edit and it would have done what you are trying to do to playing catch-up now. Ripple does that, it Ripples to the Left ALL the Events as you remove Events. But, and I am not supposing you are, and if you were/are like myself, clumsy, lazy and don't plan ahead, there's been some awfully clever people who have come to my rescue . . . .

( drum roll . .tarah!)

For a single button solution or FUNCTION set, I have VASST's UliSPro4, or VASST's FASST Apps "Event Tools", these last 2 were written by our own John Rofrano or Edward Troxel's Excalibur Gap Remover, or Gary James Timeline Tools. You could also try for anything by "Rosebud" over on the scripting Forum. You'll get to know the extent and breadth of the valuable and awesome knowledge the more you research your single-button solution.

Do your research on which of those you fancy. The World's Yer Lobster!

Cheers

Grazie

Close Gaps command from Vegasaur

+1 on Vegasaur!

I do remember that Ulead Media Studio Pro had such a build in function; I believe it would look for gaps in the timeline , even multiple tracks and you could then choose to close those empty gaps.

Perfect grazie.......I just bought it and it does just as described. I shoot breaking news, and it is common for me to have to cut down raw footage and ftp to the station. Being able to simply click and delete randomly through the P2 footage, and use the FAST APP to shove them all back together before rendering, saves valuable minutes! Thank you! :)

Paul

Paul, while scripts are a very good thing, this is a case where you really should get familiar with Vegas' ripple editing features. If you had set it to Auto it would have closed the gaps as you removed the events. If not set to auto there's a set of keyboard shortcuts that let you manually do the ripple in various ways (Affected tracks, Affected tracks plus markers, regions, and bus tracks, all tracks plus markers, regions and bus tracks).

The Vegas timeline also always shows an indicator of what would happen IF you manually ripple. It's a blue line with arrow at the top of the track view with a window showing the change in time involved in the ripple.

Rob

Timeline Tools Remove Gaps & Overlap preset is another possibility.