Old 04-24-2018, 08:51 PM   #1
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Default Q: How to Remove Empty Bars ?

If I drag a long media file into a project and just use part of it there are a lot of unused bars added to the project, how do I delete the 475 bars ?
EDIT: pics on ReaTrak host now.
Before:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zwdruq6h6n...oject.png?dl=0



After:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/84ay37qr8s...Space.png?dl=0

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Old 04-25-2018, 12:11 AM   #2
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsSb1otziI0

Watch this video!

By the way, I can't see your images.

If you want to remove free space in between the project, time select the area, right click and choose "remove contents of selection"!
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Old 04-25-2018, 01:14 AM   #3
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What browser are you using ? I put some dropbox links up.

Is it the 10:00min REAPER 5 Explained - 21. Ripple Editing that I need to watch ?
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Old 04-25-2018, 08:43 AM   #4
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Yes. Ripple editing helps to avoid free space between items by pushing the right content to the left closing the gaps. It needs a little practice. Because working with many tracks can create a mess if you don't look out what you are doing. Ripple editing has two modes: One works only on selected tracks, the other works for the whole project.

You should use it if you plan to cut out certain areas from a speech or a song. Or if you create videos and need to cut or past clips leaving the rest of the tracks in sync with music etc.

But once you know how it works, its a real helper!

And as i mentioned. If you already did the cuts and want to remove the space, just select the space (time selection) and right click "remove contents of selection"!

Edit: the dropbox links are now visible.

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Old 04-25-2018, 08:52 AM   #5
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Ok. Now the links are visible and i understand your problem. Or better said: there is no problem. Because the free space you are talking about is always there. You can't remove it because its the same as a workbench. You lay your items on those tracks and you are allowed to do so til ... as long as you want.

If you don't want to see all this space just zoom until the item fits the screen or arrange area. (Use the + or - sign at the frame or other methods. I can't tell you the default zoom options because i changed it long ago to fit my needs.) Hope it helps.
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Old 04-25-2018, 10:36 AM   #6
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There needs to be some way of deleting those 100's and 100's of bars otherwise when you zoom the slider at the bottom goes so small you can't grab the center of it to scroll left/right.
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Old 04-25-2018, 11:49 AM   #7
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Set project length limit

https://reaperblog.net/2018/01/project-length-limit/
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Old 04-25-2018, 10:30 PM   #8
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I need to be able to do it with a script, I can see
number
reaper.GetProjectLength(ReaProject proj)
but i can't see Set.
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