A limitation of ripple-editing in VS11...

[gordonwd]

...is that it doesn't work in the storyboard view. I do all of my editing in the timeline view, but in this case I had a video that was made up of dozens of short video clips and still images. I also had multiple overlay tracks with ripple-editing enabled, and all was working well.

Then I decided to add another short clip into the middle and decided it was easier to bring up the storyboard view to find where I wanted to insert it. My mistake was to do the insertion in the storyboard instead of switching back to the timeline. After the insertion, I switched to the timeline and found that my overlays and titles that followed the new clip did not ripple down as expected.

Fortunately this was easy to fix, but it seems like a bug that it works this way.