Ripple Edits Question...

GerryLeacock wrote on 4/3/2004, 8:34 AM
For the life of me I cannot find a single use for ripple edits. Am I missing something here? If it is used to, as the help file says, shuffle around clips, all I do is click - slide - click - done. Is there some use for this feature that will make my life easier that I'm not seeing? Thanks in advance everyone!

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Chienworks wrote on 4/3/2004, 8:56 AM
Very simple scenario: you have a clip in the middle of your project and you decide it's a few seconds too long. You trim the end back to where you want it and one of two things can happen:

1) ripple edits off: you leave an empty hole and you have to move everything farther down the timeline to the left to fill in the hole.

2) ripple edits on: after trimming, all of the following clips automatically move to the left to fill in the hole for you.

The same sort of thing applies to inserting a new clip, moving things around, changing playback rate of an event, etc.
GerryLeacock wrote on 4/3/2004, 9:17 AM
>2) ripple edits on: after trimming, all of the following clips automatically move to the left to fill in the hole for you.

OK, that's the part where I double click on the gap and then hit [delete]. Been using that - didn't realize that it had anything to do with ripple edits, but I now see that it doesn't work when ripple edits are turned off.

>The same sort of thing applies to inserting a new clip, moving things around, changing playback rate of an event, etc.

Here's where I don't see how ripple edits are used. Chienworks, thank for the info, and I don't mean to appear as thick as a brick, but could you elaborate a bit on this aspect. Thanks!
hbwerner wrote on 5/5/2004, 10:50 AM
My understanding is that what you've found for ripple is about all there is in SB. Vegas is supposed to have the other features that Chienworks refers to. (I think ripple does help if you cut an event and paste it elsewhere.)
Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/5/2004, 11:15 AM
Yes, when you paste a clip (or pop a clip in from the Media Pool by highlighting it and pressing Enter) all the other clips will move right to accommodate in when ripple edits are enabled. Otherwise, what you paste in will simply appear on the track at the cursor and nothing else on the timeline will be affected.

Sometimes you want one thing to happen (If you're inserting a clip and want it to shove everything else aside, leave ripple edits enabled). Sometimes you want another (As when you've already got your movie edited but you want to just add clip on a video layer above some existing footage without affecting the rest.)

In some programs (such as Premiere), when ripple edits are enabled, all clips you add or edit spring left to fill in any empty gaps -- which is nice and convenient if you're quickly tossing clips from the Media Pool to the timeline. Is this how Vegas behaves?
hbwerner wrote on 5/5/2004, 12:08 PM
OK - I tried poping a clip from the Media pool by higlighting it and pressing Enter, and it does the same thing as dragging it there - it just overlaps the stuff to the right rather than do a true insert. I understand Vegas (as well as other editing programs in the MS price range), do enable simple true inserts as the default, with overlap then handled by moving the other events if overlap is desired. Frankly, insert without overlap makes more sense as a default instead of thinking everytime I want t add something to the time line I want to overlap whaever is to the right of the insert point.