Look at what you have on the other tracks. If there are nothing above and below that empty space then try this: Click on the empty space until you see gray, then hit the Delete key on the keyboard. Cannot see your timeline to see what you have that cause this problem.

I agree with tomasc, and in addition, whenever you overwrite the original audio for a clip, PD no longer treats the clip the same way as it does intact clips. Even if you right-click and choose Link/Unlink Video and Audio to link them, you can't access any of the normal tools unless you unlink the two sections. I believe you're running into a similar issue regarding gaps.

It would probably help to see a screen capture of what you're trying to do, but that fact that removing the audio works as expected tells me that the audio replacement is probably the issue.

You can try simply unlinking the new audio and see if removing the gap works (rather than deleting it). You may also try moving it to another track, or somewhere out of the way so it won't interfere with the gap removal.

You can also highlight the modified clip and use Range Produce to create a fully intact form, then overwite the modified clip on the timeline with the newly-produced version. From that point on, PD will treat that as a normal clip.

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Quote I agree with tomasc, and in addition, whenever you overwrite the original audio for a clip, PD no longer treats the clip the same way as it does intact clips. Even if you right-click and choose Link/Unlink Video and Audio to link them, you can't access any of the normal tools unless you unlink the two sections. I believe you're running into a similar issue regarding gaps.

It would probably help to see a screen capture of what you're trying to do, but that fact that removing the audio works as expected tells me that the audio replacement is probably the issue.

You can try simply unlinking the new audio and see if removing the gap works (rather than deleting it). You may also try moving it to another track, or somewhere out of the way so it won't interfere with the gap removal.

You can also highlight the modified clip and use Range Produce to create a fully intact form, then overwite the modified clip on the timeline with the newly-produced version. From that point on, PD will treat that as a normal clip.

I just moved the audio to track 2 instead of track 1 and now I am able to fill the gap. Yes it did have something to do with the way PD handled the audio that overwrote the native audio on the clip. Thank you very much for the advice and help.