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Adding nested motion effects to multiple clips
Hi,
Just wandering, is there a way to add nested motion effects to multiple clips on the same track of a timeline?
I have footage of an event shot on an HVX200 in 25p and a DSR500 in 50i. HVX is track one and DSR is track 2. Having cut the sequence I have applied MBL to colour match the two cameras, however I seem to have to open each clip (step in using red arrow + double click) in order to apply Fluidfilm Progressive. I’ve tried dropping an instance of FFP into my FX bin, selecting multiple clips with the red arrow and then alt-dragging/alt-double clicking but to no avail.
Any advice? You could save me a great deal of time!
Thanks,
Fab.
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2 Replies
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All Timewarp effects have to go on the bottom of the nest, directly onto the clip.
Use say you used Magic Bullet to color correct–did you tweak it for every effect, or did you apply and tweak it for one then copy it to all the others?
If you tweaked it for one and applied it to all the others, then simply add that effect to a layer directly above your video and remove the MB effect from the clips–it will effect all the video below it, as though it was on each individual clip. Then you can select all the clips (now devoid of all effects) and mass apply the FluidFilm effect.
However, if you tweaked MB for each clip, then stepping in and applying the FluidFilm effect is about all you can do (unless you want to move each MB effect to a track above the clips and basically add edit marks where cuts take place to keep the effects above their respective clip).
Don’t forget, if you go into Segment or Effect mode and double click a clip with an effect on it it will expand on the timeline, so you could go into Effect mode, double click the first clip, drag the FluidFilm effect to the expanded layer, double click the next clip, drag the FluidFilm effect, etc… Might be faster than stepping in and out.
Michael.
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Yeah – that’s what i was doing – in effect mode dragging the effect onto each clip. Still time consuming though!
Thanks very much for your reply. The DSR500 had fairly even exposure so for the most part I was able to use the same MBL setting for each clip. The trouble of course with adding the effect to a video track above is that it would effect the HVX200 footage unless I added edits in the way you suggest – still very time consuming.
Is there a third-party plugin that does as good a job as timewarp, but that could be added in the same was as other effects perhaps?
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