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As a professional editor transitioning from Adobe Premiere Pro, one major workflow issue I’ve encountered in DaVinci Resolve is the lack of a reliable keyboard-only method to select and ripple-delete a gap under the playhead.

In Premiere, I can simply move the playhead over a gap and press a shortcut to ripple-delete it immediately. In Resolve, “Mark Clip” doesn’t recognize gaps, and there’s no native “Select Gap Under Playhead” function.

This seemingly small feature has a huge impact on editing speed, especially for editors working with tight deadlines and relying solely on keyboard workflows.

A built-in command like “Select Gap Under Playhead”, or extending “Mark Clip” to also work over gaps, would massively improve the editing experience — and likely help countless other editors migrating from Premiere.

Please consider this for a future update — it’s a tiny feature with major workflow benefits. Thank you!

For me, “Mark Clip” selects gaps according to the “Auto Track Selector” setting.

Christoph Schmid wrote:For me, “Mark Clip” selects gaps according to the “Auto Track Selector” setting.

Exactly what I was going to say!

As does "trim, select nearest, clip / gap" shortcut SHFT+V (or whatever shortcut you want to assign)

Perfect, thanks for the input. I'll definitely try that one. Yes, the auto track selection, still need to adapt to filling around with these buttons, maybe assigning them to specific shortcuts....