Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 578)

• Control-click the selected clip item or items, then choose Ripple Delete from the shortcut
menu.
• Press Shift-X to cut the material, if you want to paste it somewhere else.
Selected clip items
After the ripple delete,
the clip items are
removed, with no
gap remaining.
Note: By default, Sequence markers (in the Timeline ruler) will ripple with any ripple edit
or insert edit. For more information, see
“Using the Ripple Sequence Markers Setting.”
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.
There are two types of gaps:
• Track gaps: These are empty spaces between two clips in the same track.
578 Chapter 38 Arranging Clips in the Timeline