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Finding, Selecting, and Deleting Gaps in the Timeline
A gap is defined as a space between any two clips on the same track. Often gaps are desirable
as they allow audio or video clips to be spaced apart from one another very specifically, but
sometimes they’re not. If you want to find accidental gaps in your timeline that may be too small
to see, a pair of commands lets you do this.
To move the playhead to the next gap on the Timeline:
1 Turn off the Auto Select controls of any tracks you want to omit from this operation.
2 Do one of the following:
Choose Playback > Previous Gap, or press Option-Command-Semicolon (;) to move
the playhead to the next gap to the left of the playhead’s current position.
Choose Playback > Next Gap, or press Option-Command-Apostrophe () to move the
playhead to the next gap to the right of the playhead’s current position.
To select or deselect a gap:
Click once to select a gap, and click that gap again to deselect it.
You can only select one gap at a time. The principal reason to select a gap is to delete it, in the
process rippling the Timeline to close the gap. In the following example, there’s a gap between
two clips on track V1 that you’d like to close.
Selecting a gap on track V1
To delete a gap:
Press the Delete key to close the gap. All clips to the right of it on tracks with Auto
Select enabled will be rippled to the left to close the gap. Clips on tracks with Auto
Select disabled will not ripple.
If you select a gap in a timeline with clips on multiple tracks, which clips will be deleted
depends on the state of the Auto Select controls for each track in the Timeline.
All tracks with Auto Select enabled: The range of media that overlaps the selected
gap will also be deleted. Clips on those tracks will ripple left to fill the gap.
All tracks with Auto Select disabled: The range of media that overlaps the selected
gap will be left intact, and clips on those tracks will not ripple left, going out of sync with
whichever clips do ripple.
Deleting Multiple Timeline Gaps at Once
You can also ripple-delete video and audio gaps in the Timeline all at once using the Edit >
Delete Gaps command. This removes gaps among consecutive clips in the Timeline on all Auto
Select enabled tracks. Each segment of the Timeline with a gap is rippled, in order to move
clips that are to the right of each gap left to close that gap.
All gaps are defined for purposes of this command as empty spaces between clips that span all
tracks in the Timeline. In the following example, various audio/video, audio-only, and video-only
clips have gaps between them. Using Remove Gaps causes the Timeline to be rippled such that
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