Ripple delete suddenly unavailable?
by Stan Weiss
on
Nov 4, 2007 at 2:58:45 pm
I am editing a project which has a huge number of imported stills...when editing in the timeline I like to right click on any un-needed frames and select ripple delete...it very conveniently moves everything over...however suddenly i find that the ripple delete is greyed out(unavailable)...
any ideas as to why this is the case....and also if i delete the frame with the delete key and then use my mouse in the now empty space then again ripple delete is not available!
Re: Ripple delete suddenly unavailable? by Aanarav Sareen on Nov 4, 2007 at 11:45:13 pm
Stan,
Make sure that there is nothing on the other tracks while ripple-deleting. For example: You want to delete content between time = 8 and time = 10. Make sure that all tracks are empty.
Re: Ripple delete suddenly unavailable? by Blast1 on Nov 5, 2007 at 10:15:46 pm
You can have stuff on other tracks above or below, but there are a bunch of instances where you can't RD or don't want to, particularly if the other tracks have spaces in them, usually you can't RD if a track above or below has a cut or join in the same area as the segment you are trying to RD or if a cut or join is after in time on another track the segment you you are trying to perform a RD on, You can ripple delete if there is a space in another track within the segment you are RD, be aware a ripple delete with spaces on other tracks will cascade till a track joins somewhere, its best to put 2 or 3 tracks of video and play with it till you see what it does, ^Z can be a life saver.
