Showing posts with label ripple delete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ripple delete. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Shift Delete Bug

Here's an interesting occasional bug in FCP:

I had two clips and their associated audio tracks highlighted. Then I hit Shift+Delete to perform a ripple delete. But one unassociated audio track refused to budge. You can see the result in the two following images.

Before the Ripple Delete


After the Ripple Delete


A restart of FCP fixed it which goes to show that something as complex as FCP can get confused sometimes.

Always make sure you set your auto-saves to a different drive than your project drive (preferably one with Time Machine going) and don't be reluctant to save and restart FCP when things get strange.

(the stills were pulled from a video my assistant took with his little portable camera, it's interesting to see the convex curves in the stills even though the editing monitor is a flat LCD, due to the lens on his camera)

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Ripple Delete Without Touching Your Mouse

01) Position the playhead on a clip you want to ripple delete. I like to use the up and down arrow keys so the playhead is at the beginning of the offending clip.

02) Tap X to highlight that clip.

03) Hit Shift+ X to ripple delete it.

Done.