How to join events after a delete

Folk wrote on 5/17/2010, 1:11 PM
I've looked all over the docs for the answer to this and I'm not finding the answer for this simple question:

Let's say I have a project with 50 events. I decided to cut out event number 25. Now I have 24 events to the left and 25 events to the right. What is the command to rejoin the events on the left and the right? What I'm doing now is selecting the first event on the right (what was event number 26) and then scroll across, find the right-most event and select it while holding down shift (so that events 26-50 are now selected) and then dragging all the rightmost events over until they are joined with the leftmost events. All that scolling and clicking is tedious when there are a lot of events... especially if you have the timeline zoomed. You would think I could just right-click on the empty space (where event 25 used to be) and there would be a context menu option to delete the space, or "rejoin events" or something to that effect.

What am I missing here?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 5/17/2010, 2:36 PM
Turn on ripple editing. That way when you remove something from the timeline everything to the right automatically scootches over to fill in the space. Also, if you add something then everything to the right moves over to make room for it.
Folk wrote on 5/17/2010, 6:35 PM
Many thanks! I had seen the term "ripple" but thought it was an effect. :)