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  1. Get to know Premiere Elements
  2. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  3. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  4. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  5. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  6. 360° and VR Video Editing
  7. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Stock Media
    7. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    8. Creating specialty clips
    9. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  8. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  9. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Color Fonts and Emojis
    6. Smart Trim
    7. Freehand Crop
    8. Delete All Gaps
    9. Change clip speed and duration
    10. Split clips
    11. Freeze and hold frames
    12. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    13. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    14. Replace footage
    15. Working with source clips
    16. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    17. Trim clips
    18. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    19. Artistic effects
  10. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  11. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  12. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  13. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  14. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  15. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Text Styles and Style Browser
    9. Align and transform objects
    10. Motion Titles
    11. Appearance of text and shapes
    12. Exporting and importing titles
    13. Arranging objects in titles
    14. Designing titles for TV
    15. Applying styles to text and graphics
    16. Adding a video in the title
  16. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  17. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Learn how to delete gaps between clips in Premiere Elements.

Efficient editing starts with a clean timeline. Starting with the 2026 release, Premiere Elements offers a new Delete All Gaps tool which lets you automatically remove empty spaces between clips with a single action. Ideal for polishing rough cuts or tightening sequences before export, this feature ensures smoother transitions and a more cohesive final product.

Note

This feature is available in Guided Room and Advanced Room workspaces.

When you are working in the Advanced Room, the Timeline will now flag any existing gaps (blank spaces between clips) using a visual indicator. This makes it easier to spot unintentional pauses or missing footage that could affect the flow of your final video.

When gaps are present in the Timeline, hovering the mouse over a gap will display this graphic. Users can then choose to delete either all gaps at once or only the selected gap.

You have two convenient ways to handle gaps:

  1. Delete All Gaps: Quickly remove every gap across the entire Timeline with a single click.

  2. Delete This Gap: If you want to keep some gaps for stylistic reasons, you can remove only the specific one.

To use the Timeline menu option:

  1. Go to Timeline > Delete All Gaps to remove all gaps before exporting the video.

Note

Before exporting, Premiere Elements performs a final check. If any gaps are still present in the Timeline, a warning dialog box will appear when you click Export. This prompt ensures you don’t accidentally export a video with unwanted blank frames.

What to do if a warning dialog box pops up:

When you click Export with gaps still present in the Timeline, a warning dialog box alerts you that gaps remain in the timeline..

Review the warning dialog and choose whether to remove the gaps before proceeding.

Note

Additional preference:

To disable gap overlay graphics while still receiving the export warning, go to Preferences > Timeline and uncheck Enable timeline mouse menu options for Delete All Gaps. Preview your Timeline to ensure all gaps are addressed before exporting.

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If you have questions about working with Delete All Gaps in Premiere Elements, reach out to us in our Premiere Elements community. We would love to help.

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