Can’t believe I was today years old when I learned about the “close gap” feature in Premiere Pro. I don’t want to even admit to you the bizarre and creative ways I’ve been ripple deleting dozens of gaps in large sequences. But that was the old me.

Let’s say you’ve got a bunch of clips on a timeline, and you want them all to snap together without any spaces. You COULD click every single gap and ripple delete. If you want to hate your life but milk your hourly rate, I guess you could do this.

But a better way to go is to highlight all the clips, open the SEQUENCE menu (at the top of Premiere), and then select “Close Gap.”

Voila. No gaps.