Comments

Grazie wrote on 3/18/2010, 7:44 AM
Auto Ripple.

Its fast.

Its dynamic.

Its what you want. But it IS a loaded GUN!

Grazie
rs170a wrote on 3/18/2010, 7:48 AM
But it IS a loaded GUN!

What Grazie means is that it's a tool that you enable, use and then disable immediately as there is potential to cause you lots of grief if you forget that it's still on.
Speaking from experience here :-(

Mike
UlfLaursen wrote on 3/18/2010, 7:54 AM
I usually use the manual feature, CTRL+F of that reason :-)

/Ulf
Chienworks wrote on 3/18/2010, 12:16 PM
I still find it odd when people recommend disabling autoripple after every use. For me, it's on 99.997% of the time. It's when i've left it off after that 0.003% time that i get into tons of trouble because i forgot to turn it back on again.

*shrug* I guess it's just the way i edit, but to me it seems more damaging to work without it.
baysidebas wrote on 3/18/2010, 12:38 PM
Exactly, it all depends on the characteristics of the project I'm working on. Most of my projects (multicam with dual system audio) it's off, but there's the occasional project (when I'm just stringing events together into a linear cut) when it's on 100% of the time.
jetdv wrote on 3/18/2010, 12:46 PM
I still find it odd when people recommend disabling autoripple after every use. For me, it's on 99.997% of the time. It's when i've left it off after that 0.003% time that i get into tons of trouble because i forgot to turn it back on again.

Kelly, I'm just the opposite. I leave it off 99.9% of the time. I don't want things moving unless I specifically tell them to move. Sometimes I want all tracks to move so I use my "select all after cursor" script instead. Sometimes I only want the one specific track to move so I'll right-click and use "Select events to end". I don't want to have to repeatedly change the ripple settings before each piece I add to the timeline.

Now, for the .1% time when it *IS* useful to me... I'll do a POST Ripple Edit. To me, it's the much safer option.
PeterWright wrote on 3/18/2010, 8:26 PM
I use post edit ripple all the time, I can only remember once when I had auto-ripple turned on.

My reason - most of my jobs are around 30 minutes long, and if I had auto-ripple on all the time, I JUST KNOW that there would be times when I've moved something and not realised that events out of sight down the timeline have moved without me wanting them to, and it can be very hard to unravel things that happened maybe half an hour's editing ago.

So, like Edward, I decide when I want things to ripple - it's a single button on my Shuttle Pro so couldn't be easier.