Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 535)

202 Part II Rough Editing
To delete a clip item and close the gap left behind:
1 Select the item or range of items you want to remove.
2 Do one of the following:
 Choose Sequence > Ripple Delete.
 Control-click the selected clip item or items, then choose Ripple Delete from the
shortcut menu.
 Press Shift-Delete.
 Press Shift-X to cut the material, if you want to paste it somewhere else.
Finding and Closing Gaps
As you edit, cut, paste, and move items around in Final Cut Pro, empty spaces (called
gaps) may be left between clips in your sequence. Sometimes they are extremely small
(one or two frames), which makes them difficult to see in the Timeline. When a
sequence with gaps plays back in the Canvas, however, even tiny gaps are apparent as
flashes of black, so you don’t want to unintentionally leave them in the sequence.
Selected clip items
After the ripple delete, the
clip items are removed, with
no gap remaining.