Moving an entire project up on the time line

randyvild wrote on 3/12/2002, 12:18 PM
I need an extra 10 seconds in the beginning of my finished project for a counter.
So I tried highlighting the project with the loop option then I went to edit and selected all and hit cut and then moved it. It worked. However, certain parts of the project are not effected the same. For instance my Globe picture won't appear eventhough its in the right place...weird stuff. Please help....

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SonicTamara wrote on 3/12/2002, 12:21 PM
With the cursor at the beginning of the timeline, choose Insert > Time and enter 10 seconds for a value. This adds 10 seconds of blank space to the cursor position. Hope this helps. :-)
randyvild wrote on 3/12/2002, 11:55 PM
You are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was not even aware of this feature.

Thank you,
Randy
sqblz wrote on 3/13/2002, 4:02 AM
Nice tip indeed, SonicTamara, I wasn't aware either.
But.. what then ? Say, I insert a 10-sec gap at the beginning of my project and I start working on it. I create something which is roughly 7-sec long. How do I move all the remainder project again to eliminate the 3-sec gap ?
And, even more difficult ... and if the new 7-sec event must crossfade with the remainder project ???
Thanks for the help.
jimcho wrote on 3/13/2002, 7:27 AM
Double click the blank space, hit delete.

To move the tail end of your project with your mouse (to overlap or whatever), select events immediately to the right of the blank space, right-click and "Select event to end".
sqblz wrote on 3/14/2002, 4:56 AM
Almost there, jimcho. But not quite.
I haven't tried the "delete" trick on the blank space. I guess that it will delete the blank space, with the consequence that all events to the right of the blank will snap to the event at the left of the blank (or the project beginning), is that OK ?

But then again (and the same question goes to your suggestion regarding "select to end" and drag) what happens to the *other tracks* ? They dont't move !

You will tell me that one solution is: selecting the first event to move in each track (using Ctrl-click). And then select to end. And then drag.
But, what if I have 50 tracks ? With sparse events. It will be quite difficult to navigate down each track and locate the first event to select in each track ...
See what I mean ?
SonyEPM wrote on 3/14/2002, 8:39 AM
If you have all events, or no events, selected...

everything will ripple.
sqblz wrote on 3/14/2002, 9:14 AM
Sorry, SonicEPM, too deep to me... :-)
I didn't understand your point.
jimcho wrote on 3/14/2002, 10:18 AM
I think SonicEPM was referring to the double-click delete trick. As long as rippling is enabled it should work regardless of what events are selected.

If you have 50 tracks, just click on the top one, then shift click the bottom, then right-click and "Select events to end".
sqblz wrote on 3/14/2002, 11:28 AM
jimcho, you mean shift-click the tracks, *not* the events ? Yeah, good hint. I guess that it may work ...
So, the full procedure is:
- insert blank at the beginning of the project. All events in all tracks will move right in synchro.
- place whatever events I want in any track, in the blank space. For this example, suppose these are events A,B,C,D,E.
- To select everything to the right of the blank space: click the first track, shift-click the last track and "select to end".
*!*Then*!*, Ctrl-click each one of the events A,B,C,D,E to de-select them.
- Move the selected events left until touching / overlapping the newest events, thus eliminating the remainder of the blank.
*** Voilá !!!
...
But
Wait a sec !!! What about keyframes ?!?!?! Will they move also right ? And left ?
...
What a headache ...
pelvis wrote on 3/14/2002, 3:04 PM
track keyframes and envelope points are locked to events by default (meaning yes, they ripple too).
Cheesehole wrote on 3/14/2002, 6:01 PM
everything sounds good except this:
*!*Then*!*, Ctrl-click each one of the events A,B,C,D,E to de-select them.

you should only be selecting the events you want to move in the first place, but maybe we're just looking at things a little differently.
Cheesehole wrote on 3/14/2002, 6:02 PM
SonicEPM says:
"If you have all events, or no events, selected... everything will ripple."

should be on a fortune cookie I think! :)
sqblz wrote on 3/25/2002, 6:54 AM
Are you still interested on this ?
Yesterday by chance I discovered the complete *easy* solution to this.
Wanted: to eliminate x seconds along all the tracks, moving left (in synchro) all events to the right of the elimination.
Solution: determine startpoint of zone, press "i". Determine endpoint, press "o". This will select zone between "i" and "o", across all tracks.
Press delete, and zone will be eliminated, all events at right will move left.
All keyframes etc will move also (as Pelvis remarked).

By the way, shift-clicking on track headers does *not* work ...