cs6: w & Q don't seem to work

[robirdman1]

following Adobe tutorial How to trim and shorten video clips | Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials

But when I try to remove a section using the letters, nothing happens.  I trim the end of one, and then have to highlight all following clips and drag to that end to get rid of the gap.

Also if I remove from the front of a clip, and then move up to the previous, it seems like I must also highlight and drag all following clips.  Is there a better way?

For example I have a clip of a perched bird.  When it takes off, I like to slow the action to 1/3 using duration at 33.  If I use the ripple function there, all the following moves back nicely to make room.  but then when I cut where the bird has flow out of the scene, ripple edit won't let me then move up the following to that point.  Then if I remove that footage, I have a gap, and again have to zoom out to select all following clips and drag to fill the gap.   As I do this with most such take-off clips, it seems like a lot of extra work that might have a solution to shorten the time involved.

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[Mike Dziennik]

Do you have the track selectors highlighted when you hit Q or W?

[Kevin-Monahan]

robirdman,

Good morning from the west coast. Thanks for the detailed response. I believe you. Q and W isn't working the way you'd expect it to. That's frustrating. Is it possible to get details around your system and media? Not to make light of your situation, it's possible that you are hitting a bug. In experimenting a little with some my own footage, I see a little weirdness myself. So, let me know a bit more info so I can try to repeat your error and get a bug filed for your case. 

Thanks,

Kevin

[robirdman1]

Yesterday, I was editing better even without the W or Q, using ripple edit.  I had made about 1600 videos before without this tool, so this was quite a time saver.  Also I discovered ripple delete, and duration with ripple, all saving me lots of time.

Today however not only do Q and W, not work but neither does ripple edit.  I watched the video again.  Got the yellow bracket at the end of a clip I wanted to trim and when I move it, the clip doesn't shrink, nothing moves up or happens. Also ripple edit is grayed out whereas yesterday I used a lot. Now it's back to clumsy highlighting all the following clips and dragging after any trim. This is on a Windows 10 machine.  Picture shows I have the ripple bracket, but moving to the left, nothing happens.  The bracket moves but no trim.

[Kevin-Monahan]

robirdman,

You need to lock those two tracks for your graphics and you can ripple.
BTW: Are you using CS6? If not, why is your playhead yellow?

Thanks,
Kevin

[robirdman1]

Yes CS6, as in the subject title.

[Averdahl · Accepted solution]

following Adobe tutorial How to trim and shorten video clips | Adobe Premiere Pro tutorials

But when I try to remove a section using the letters, nothing happens.

By robirdman1

This feature does not exist in CS6.

[robirdman1]

So I did another project and ripple edit and ripple delete both worked.  Started another today and they worked for a couple of clips and then no longer, back to zooming out, selecting all, moving up and zooming back in to edit.  I don't know what changed.

[Averdahl]

So I did another project and ripple edit and ripple delete both worked.  Started another today and they worked for a couple of clips and then no longer, back to zooming out, selecting all, moving up and zooming back in to edit.  I don't know what changed.

By robirdman1

When you have clips on multiple tracks that overlap other clips it will cause issues with Ripple Edit so that´s one thing to check for. The clips abowe the video clip you are trying to ripple delete you posted yesterday is an example of that. The two clips abowe is the issue.

Since those two seems to be logos it is easily solved by locking those two tracks. You must then trim the ends of the logo when done, but that can wait until the final export so it´s no hurry.

Yesterday i wrote "This feature does not exist in CS6." i meant the Ripple Trim Next Edit To Playhead and Ripple Trim Previous Edit To Playhead feature. They have Q and W as the default keys today. AFAIK it was not available in CS6 but it seems that it had nothing to do with your problem here.