If you enjoy professional video editing with too many clips and media segments to deal with, you must know the difficulty of micro-editing. Especially when the editing timeline has so many elements to work with, editing between clips can be a pretty daunting task.
The biggest challenge is rearranging the elements after you make a small change in the timeline. The space the video creates while you’re cropping needs to be filled, and manually selecting media files and moving them on the editing timeline can be difficult. Also, if you’re trying to do more than one edit, you can imagine how messy it can be.
Trying out Ripple Editing is your best bet in such situations. And before we see how you can do it in Sony Vegas Pro, let me quickly tell you what it is and how it can be useful.
Note: Ripple Editing is available in many professional video editing tools and is not limited to Sony Vegas. This post will help you get a general idea that you can use on any professional editing tool.
Understanding Ripple editing
In Ripple Editing, the entire timeline with different media files in different tracks is considered a ripple. Any disturbance in it is automatically corrected by subsequent clips. So, say you shrink a clip, all segments following that clip will automatically move forward to take up free space. Similarly, if you expand a clip, space will be created to push all other clips into the timeline.
This way the continuity remains intact and you don’t have to manually select the clips to move them on the timeline. So to put it simply, ripple editing is a way to edit timelines without leaving gaps in between.
How Ripple Edit in Sony Vegas Pro
To edit tracks in ripple mode in Sony Vegas, you need to enable it in the settings. By default, the option is disabled. In older versions of Sony Vegas, you might find this option as an icon in the toolbar. However, in the latest version, the option has been moved to Option menu.
You can also enable the option using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L and then continue editing the timeline. That’s it. When you have this option enabled, all clips will take up space in the timeline as you edit the clip.
Things to note in Ripple editing
Ripple editing certainly makes it easy to edit clips on the timeline, but there are a few points you need to pay attention to.
- Ripple editing can be dangerous if you have a lot of tracks and if they are not grouped together. Therefore, always make sure that you group the tracks into the sound you want to stay together before applying the ripple effect.
- While adding a new clip to the track, turn off ripple editing. Once you’ve added the video, you can enable ripple editing.
- All tracks are affected when you edit in ripple mode. If you don’t want a track for me to move, such as a master track, lock it and start editing.
Conclusion
So that’s a brief info on Ripple editing and how to use it in Sony Vegas when you have a lot of clips to process. In case of any doubt, feel free to ask it in our form and we will be happy to help.
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