Ripple Editing, What is It

pestocat wrote on 2/12/2005, 12:41 PM
I'm new to video editing, Vegas 5.0 is my first introduction to video editing. I just completed editing a 55 minute wedding video. I was quite happy with all the Vegas features and it was fairly easy to get the "hang" of the process. In reading the vegas manual, I was never able to understand what ripple editing, post-edit ripple, etc. is all about. Can someone explain it.
Thank you,
pestocat

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 2/12/2005, 1:23 PM
When you movie an existing event left or right on the timeline, ripple edit will move all other events on that track to the right or left by the same amount. Manual ripple edit lets you do this by pressing the "F" key. Automatic ripple editing does it automatically. The automatic variety has several modes that determine how events on other tracks get moved: Sometimes you want them to move as well, sometimes you don't.

With just two tracks (one video, one audio), ripple editing is very useful. With multiple tracks, it can cause unexpected results, so use it with care, and immediately check the results on the other tracks before you proceed (at least until you get the hang of it).
riredale wrote on 2/12/2005, 5:16 PM
It is EXTREMELY useful, but also very dangerous--you can totally screw up a complicated project very easily if you don't know exactly what you're doing.

Some people think Vegas should have some sort of loud horn, such as the backup horn from a large truck, that sounds as long as the ripple button is enabled. The idea is to turn on the ripple function, do your ripple move carefully, and then immediately turn the function off.
winrockpost wrote on 2/12/2005, 5:27 PM
Post edit ripple is a great, use it all the time. Ripple edit is scary and dangerous, dont trust it or myself using it.
Pestocat, to use postedit ripple . Say you make a change in your timeline ,such as delete a clip, and you may have 10 clips downstream that now need to be butted up to the point where the deleted clip was..Immediately after deleting the clip select post edit ripple, all tracks , and poof, everything moves as if the dleted clip never existed.
monchavo wrote on 2/13/2005, 1:09 AM
Ripple ripped my flesh more than once during the creation of my last project, Asian Adventure. The reason I think it is dangerous is that it calls for the editor to really "think" - the Vegas environment is such a comfortable, easy going and highly intuitive one that it's unsurprising that lax practices appear. If you get lax when using Ripple then it will bite you so hard you will wish you'd never begun the project you just wasted several hours on ;-)

Save often, use incremental filenames, especially before using Ripple.
Lili wrote on 2/13/2005, 6:54 AM
I use it all the time and not afraid of it (anymore!) as I was in the beginning. Most useful to me for eliminating large gaps in the timeline between events. With the ripple feature on, I select the blank space, hit delete, and all the clips join up.
If I inadvertently forget to turn off the feature and it messes something up as I'm editing, I immediately do an edit undo and all is well again.
Think of ripple editing as the 'insert" feature in word processing. If you do any word processing at all, you will know how that functions. That's what some editing systems even call it "insert" instead of "ripple". It sure took all the mystery out of it for me.
lili
monchavo wrote on 2/13/2005, 8:16 AM
Problems start to arise if you DO screw up, then check back 20 mins later into the other end of your project only to find audio/events screwed up due to you not paying attention earlier :-) It's such a case of RTFM... However, this is unlikely with the n00bs and Keygen Kiddies we get here it seems.. sigh