Seemingly Simple Thing I want to Do

staggart wrote on 12/10/2004, 4:55 PM

OK, up front I am not an expert at SMS. I want to do something that seems like a very simple thing. I have a new project and I have imported a few dozen video/audio clips and placed them on the timeline. Now I want to go from left to right on the timeline, make selections (one at a time), and cut out these selected pieces ***AND*** I want ALL clieps to the right of what I just cut to "slide" over to fill the gap. I have tried everything and every mode I can think of and just can't see how this is done. I don't wnat to have to select every clip to the right with each cut and drag it. I don't groups since I don;t think that will work. I just want the clips to the right to slide over to fill the gap. Seems simple, seems doable.

Plase help!!

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PaulS wrote on 12/10/2004, 5:27 PM

Make sure ripple edits are enabled and use the normal edit tool.

To delete a clip, double-click on it to highlight across all clips, and then hit delete (you can also do this on blank sections).

To make a new selection and then delete it, click and drag in the area above the time line to make a selection, or hold down the shift key and use the arrow keys to make a selection, then hit delete.

The key in both cases is to make a selection across all clips.

staggart wrote on 12/10/2004, 5:33 PM

OK, I see ripple edits handles deletes fine. How do I get the same "ripple" effect when I want to slide ALL clips to the right over. For example, I want to slide clips 3-N (last) over to the left such that clip 3 transitions over the end of clip 2. When I do this now (slide clip 3 over to the left), clips 4-N will not "stick" and come with clip 3 as I drag it to the left. Instead, I am left with a gap between 3 and 4 and when I drag 4 to the left, the gap is now between 4 and 5 and so on.

ritsmer wrote on 12/11/2004, 2:19 AM

Right click event 3 and press v (select to end) and then everything from 3-n sticks together and can be moved nicely.

PaulS wrote on 12/11/2004, 6:01 AM

Or if the space between tracks 2 and 3 is completely blank (nothing on any of the other tracks), double-click on the blank area between the clips and hit delete.

Elmo27376 wrote on 12/11/2004, 11:05 AM

First select all the clips to the right of the clip you want to work on, say clip 3.
Press the g key to group the selected clips.
Edit clip 3 and dellete the out takes then move it into position against clip 2.
On the tool bar click the icon Ignore Event Grouping.
Move clip 4 to the left and edit it then move it against clip 3.
Click Ignore Event Grouping to turn it off.
Move clip 5 and the rest against clip 4.

Does this help?

staggart wrote on 12/11/2004, 12:49 PM

PaulS and ritsmer -- very good and useful advice - thank you very much. ritsmer - your advice about the right-click-v was exactly what I needed for getting everything to the right of an event to follow along with a left-drag. It still bugs me that very little of this is in the User's Manual along with simple tutorials - most of what I am doing is simple stuff that many beginners want to do. I spent hours doing this the hard way and with a few simple commands I can save a lot of time.

Thanks again - I have found this forum very useful.

Scott