Re: The Position Tool Does Not Disable Ripple Mode - Here's Why

[David Lawrence] "If you want to extend open space to the right of a gap, you have to trim forward from the gap tail. Something you could easily accomplish in FCP7 with T or TTT and a quick drag."

And completely unnecessary in X. You don't have to select the entire right side of the timeline, you simply insert space, then define it's length. Everything else moves along with it. Easy.

[David Lawrence] "There's currently no easy way to start the cross dissolve at transition end."

Definitely not as easy as "start at beginning", but the precision editor (control-e) does allow more control and gets you want you want. If not, you simply move the clip up to a connected clip (option-command-up) and start it right there, and trim the clip below it.