Delete Gaps - Please make it account for a clip selection

Delete Gaps is great, but not super useful in that it removes Gaps in the whole sequence regardless of clip selection. Without being able to select a group of clips and delete the Gaps without affecting anything else it keeps it from being very useful in the way I would need for my work.

You can use in and out points to restrict the time range, and if you still want to use clip selection you can just use the Mark Selection shortcut.

I ran into this one myself recently. Selected the group of clips I wanted affected, didn't work the way I hoped.

Yeah the far more intuitive way would be to respect the selection. I have a feeling that's how 99% of new users would expect it to work.

But it's good to know about the In and Out selection in the meantime.

I 100% agree that the Delete Gaps command should respect clip selection! I NEVER want to delete all the gaps in my Timeline, only those in selected ranges of clips.

Lasso selection for gap deletion should be added ASAP as setting in/out points is not a reasonable work around since it requires 4x to 8x more steps!

Here's how it compares:

Premiere Pro
Step 1: Lasso select clips with gaps to remove. Done!

Resolve 15.3
Step 1: Move Playhead to desired in point on Timeline
Step 2: Set in point
Step 3: Move Playhead to desired out point on Timeline
Step 4: Set out point
Step 5-8: if the user needs previously set in/out points on the Timeline, they are now lost and thus need to be reset using the same 4 steps above!

As a new Resolve user trying to make the transition from Premiere Pro, should I assume that Davinci turns simple things that should take 1 step into multi-step ordeals? The current Delete Gaps function seems to suggest so.

To take the lousy Delete Gaps command and make it even better than it works in Premiere Pro, Davinci could do the following: allow gaps to be removed from selected clips even if there's non-selected media on other tracks. For example, if there's gaps in a selected range of video clips over a continuous (non-selected) piece of audio, allow the gaps in the video clips to be removed since the audio is not selected. This is a big limitation on Premiere Pro's version of the command that needs fixing. Perhaps Davinci could beat them to the chase?!

I 100% agree that the Delete Gaps command should respect clip selection! I NEVER want to delete all the gaps in my Timeline, only those in selected ranges of clips.

Lasso selection for gap deletion should be added ASAP as setting in/out points is not a reasonable work around since it requires 4x to 8x more steps!

Here's how it compares:

Premiere Pro
Step 1: Lasso select clips with gaps to remove. Done!

Resolve 15.3
Step 1: Move Playhead to desired in point on Timeline
Step 2: Set in point
Step 3: Move Playhead to desired out point on Timeline
Step 4: Set out point
Step 5-8: if the user needs previously set in/out points on the Timeline, they are now lost and thus need to be reset using the same 4 steps above!

As a new Resolve user trying to make the transition from Premiere Pro, should I assume that Davinci turns simple things that should take 1 step into multi-step ordeals? The current Delete Gaps function seems to suggest so.

To take the lousy Delete Gaps command and make it even better than it works in Premiere Pro, Davinci could do the following: allow gaps to be removed from selected clips even if there's non-selected media on other tracks. For example, if there's gaps in a selected range of video clips over a continuous (non-selected) piece of audio, allow the gaps in the video clips to be removed since the audio is not selected. This is a big limitation on Premiere Pro's version of the command that needs fixing. Perhaps Davinci could beat them to the chase?!

This is the way this tool should be working.

+1 for this to implement

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Agree with all of the above but a workaround of sorts...
The command 'Swap Clips Towards Left (or Right)' under Edit can be used to close a gap: select the clip(s) to the right of a gap, go to Edit - Swap Clips Towards Left and the selected clips move across the gap, effectively closing the gap.
Mapped to the keyboard (I have cmd up-arrow and cmd down-arrow for left and right) this becomes a very useful way of closing gaps, especially in conjunction with the Select Clips Forward/Backward command (again mapped to a handy shortcut).

Here's how it compares:

Premiere Pro
Step 1: Lasso select clips with gaps to remove. Done!

Resolve 15.3
Step 1: Move Playhead to desired in point on Timeline
Step 2: Set in point
Step 3: Move Playhead to desired out point on Timeline
Step 4: Set out point
Step 5-8: if the user needs previously set in/out points on the Timeline, they are now lost and thus need to be reset using the same 4 steps above!

By the by - Shift-A will mark your selection with in and out points, so it's not really as roundabout as all that.

By the by - Shift-A will mark your selection with in and out points, so it's not really as roundabout as all that.

That's a great tip, thank you!

Still +1

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But you also could:

- select the clips
- Mark Selection (Menu: Mark -> Mark Selection)
- delete Gaps

This reduces the process to two keystrokes

[Shrinivas Ramani]

Please refer to the What's New in DaVinci Resolve 17 document - page 74
URL: https://documents.blackmagicdesign.com/ ... 4240010000