[Rwp] A Basic Question about Ripple Editing

[Matej Golian]

Ok,
I split the first item exactly at 2 seconds and after deleting the 2nd
resulting item it's exactly as I want it to be, but I still don't
understand why it isn't enough to just change the length of the item
in the properties dialogue.

2015-10-11 22:21 GMT+02:00, Matej Golian <matej.golian at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> once again I would be very grateful if you could help me out. I
> haven't read the entire manual yet, but I have watched a number of
> tutorials and apparently I don't understand how ripple editing works.
> Or maybe I just don't know enough about items yet. Anyhow, this is
> what I'm trying to do. It's very simple.
> I basically just want to insert an empty item before all the other
> items on a particular track. I turn ripple editing on, go to the
> begining of the project and insert a new empty item. It gets inserted
> right at the begining of the track and it pushes all the other items
> to the right. So that part's fine. I than select the newly inserted
> item and I set its length to 2 seconds in the item properties. I
> thought that all the other items would just move back to the left
> after that, but they stay just where they were before I changed the
> length of the first item. What am I missing here?
> Many thanks.
>