In a montage, it ‘would be nice’ if Ripple Editing worked when shortening clips from their start (dragging left-hand edge to the right), as well as how it currently works when shortening clips by dragging the right-hand edge, to the left.
For example, the gap between the previous clips end and the start of the clip being shortened, remains intact, as you drag to the right - with all subsequent clips ‘rippling’ just as we have now. This is similar to how NLE video editors currently work.
This end result is achievable now of course; just drag the start (left-hand edge) of a clip to the right, to your new chosen ‘starting point in the song/track’. Then perform a normal ‘move clip’ position (with ripple ‘track/global’ on) back to the left to re-establish the gap desired between previous clips end. All subsequent clips ripple back together too.
So, a two-step process/workflow, reduced to one…
Unless I’m missing something and it’s already possible, somehow..?
Here’s a clip from YouTube. They call it ‘Insert mode’ in Edius NLE (as opposed to their normal ‘Overwrite mode’)
You’ll see the guy grab the left-hand edge of a clip and drag right (5:40). Watch how the material to the right ‘slides’ back to the left as he drags - so that, in this case, no gap is made from his action. If you were in their ‘Overwrite mode’, a gap would be created.
Now, with WL, I’d enjoy that behaviour whilst keeping say, an existing 2 sec audio gap intact (or any arbitrary gap), ‘rippling’ all material at right-hand side, back to the left as I drag…
It’s like a ‘slip edit’ - the left edge of the clip staying stationary whilst all material to the right moves/slips back (to the left), as you drag the mouse right.
If I am not mistaken, what I see in your video, this is already possible in WaveLab, but in a different way:
Press Shift + Control (Cmd on Mac) and drag the right edge of the clip to resize.
When you press this key combination on a edge edge, the mouse cursor changes shape.
Hmm… I see the cursor change shape, but no ‘function’ seems to work here - I cannot ‘grab’ an edge, right or left to drag… Do the clips have to be immediately adjacent to work - no gaps.?
Besides, grabbing a right edge and dragging (left) is just normal ripple editing. You can’t drag to the right, past the physical end of a clip of course.
I now see what you mean by click/drag the right edge of the clip I want to have a different start, and see the rest of the clips to the right, ripple along too…
Now if only the Cubase/Nuendo teams would take inspiration from @PG1 and add these ripple editing features to Cubase/Nuendo 15! Crossing fingers 15 is the magic number this year (we’ve been waiting for years and years…).
Sorry for the distraction to this thread, but I’ll also take a second to thank PG for ripple editing in WL… indeed it’s a solid implementation.
Indeed.! This function discussed here in particular, would be a start… but it needs fully building out into a proper ‘ripple-edit’ mode (like Reaper has or all video NLE’s).
