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Undocumented Feature: Copy selected Effects
Somebody able to get this to work? Especially copying only one selected effect instead everything?
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13 Replies
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Couldn’t get it to single out one effect – but it worked well copying color timing from clip to another. The new color tool by the way, blows away the 3-Way corrector and we were able to stack multiple color effects, masks, vignettes etc – which are far better in quality than Color’s, and run them in realtime!
Lance Bachelder
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Ok, I figured one out:
1 Click on the little symbol on the upper left of a clip.
2. Open Video Animation.
3. Use the little blue checkboxs and turn off the effects out don’t want to copy
4. Option-Apple-C
5. Select the clip you want to paste to and Option-Apple-P. It pastes only the effects that are turned on.
There may be a better way, but that just worked.
Best,
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[Lance Bachelder] “Couldn’t get it to single out one effect – but it worked well copying color timing from clip to another. The new color tool by the way, blows away the 3-Way corrector and we were able to stack multiple color effects, masks, vignettes etc – which are far better in quality than Color’s, and run them in realtime!”
The Color Board is just begging for an iPad companion app that shows color/saturation/exposure controls at the same time and lets you make multitouch adjustments.
By the way, there are tons of otherwise undocumented keyboard shortcuts — and even commands that have no shortcut by default and aren’t in the menus anywhere (but that can be assigned a shortcut) — hidden away in the keyboard customization window.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read our blog.
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Yeah we’ve kinda been joking about the color board, at $299 FCPX may be the best color timing tool for the money. You really don’t need 3rd party plug-ins like Looks or Colorista 2 anymore and it’s realtime.
Whatever they did with the Colorsync etc it’s just so pristine and much like Resolve in the purity of how color and masks are applied – you can really finesse DSLR footage like nothing I’ve ever used and I’ve timed 2 features in Color.
An iPad app with the color board would be fun!
Lance Bachelder
Southern California -
[Lance Bachelder] “Whatever they did with the Colorsync etc it’s just so pristine and much like Resolve in the purity of how color and masks are applied – you can really finesse DSLR footage like nothing I’ve ever used and I’ve timed 2 features in Color.”
FCP X and Resolve both process everything in a 32-bit float color space. Like Resolve, FCP X even stays in that space between stacked corrections. So, for instance, you can blow a clip out to full white with the exposure control in one correction, and then bring it back down in a different correction — the engine’s color space is so large that nothing ever clips in its internal numerical representation.
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Digital Workflow/Colorist, Nice Dissolve.You should follow me on Twitter here. Or read our blog.
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That’s some pretty good news on the color board. I haven’t used it too much yet but will be diving into it soon. I wish AJA would get those drivers sorted for my Kona card!!
NT
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Yeah I get the 32-bit thing – everyone claims that PPro, Vegas, Magic Bullet, Color, After Effects etc. but there is a difference to the math somehow, not a programmer or engineer here but there is a finesse here I can’t get with these other programs.
Lance Bachelder
Southern California -
[Chris Kenny] “FCP X and Resolve both process everything in a 32-bit float color space. Like Resolve, FCP X even stays in that space between stacked corrections. So, for instance, you can blow a clip out to full white with the exposure control in one correction, and then bring it back down in a different correction — the engine’s color space is so large that nothing ever clips in its internal numerical representation.”
An obvious hallmark of a prosumer toy… 😉
Best,
Andy -
[Chris Kenny] ” the engine’s color space is so large that nothing ever clips in its internal numerical representation.”
Does this mean there is a clipper/broadcast safe always in line? If so, this is a big bonus!
Jon
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BTW. I mocked and hated the Color Board cConcept. It had nothing to do with the vectroscope and 3 way color correctors. Come on, when color is all about circles, you’ve created a square? ! But then after some digging I realized it was the “hue adjustment” tool form the secondaries in Apple Color. That made me hate it less.
Then I used it. I did my tonal correction with my waveform scope open. Everything I needed was there. Then I went for “pleasing color”. I was shocked. It worked wonderfully. Added some vignettes, and some secondaries. I’m impressed.
We still need a 3 way color corrector to get accurate colors, especially flesh tones. And I second the notion of the iPad control surface, but not just color controls, but audio faders and transport controls on the iPad. But the currently color controls in FCP X are a pretty good tool once you understand them.
– T.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
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