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Paste Attributes
As a long-time Premiere Pro user, I never understood the huge brouhaha over Premiere’s lack of an FCP-style Paste Attributes panel- because I’ve been achieving the same thing this panel does for a long time- just going about it differently.
You can copy one effect from one clip to another by going to the Effect Controls Panel and highlighting it, then copying, then highlight the clip you want to paste it to and paste. You can copy multiple effects the same way by holding down the control key and selecting them. Then copy them, highlight the destination clip or clips and paste, and VOILA- multiple attributes copied and pasted without having to paste everything first. This works for motion, opacity, audio, effects, everything- and it’s been there for ages.
Of course, with the new way you don’t have to switch to another panel if you have another one open, and using the keyboard will speed things up, but the Effects Control Panel method does do the trick- and if you’re on Premiere and want something to hold you over until the new version gets here, this should help…
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Can you paste the attributes on multiple clips at once? That’s what I did in Legacy many years ago before I figured out that it had a Paste Effects Panel. It works faster that way, it was one of my very few big issues I had with FCPX 10.0.1, there was no way to copy effects, until 10.0.4, or use an adjustment layer.
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[Nikolas Bäurle] Can you paste the attributes on multiple clips at once?
Yes, you can.
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I used to do it this way in Legacy FCP as well before pass attributes came along, and that’s the way I’ve always done it in AE.
CTRL C saves several steps vs having to go to the Effects Control panel, and then selecting all, or more tediously having to Option Select the specific effects you want to copy. Especially if you have lots of effects with the controls expanded.
Pasting effects was then a simple checkmark box of elements you wanted to paste to the selected clip or clips.
I give credit to FCPX for improving paste effects when they reintroduced it in 10.0.6. Adding more granularity to the panel (pasting specific effects vs just “effects”), as we’ll as the option of either maintaining the timing of any keyframes in the copied clip, OR automatically retiming the keyframes to the duration of the new clips.
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Still can’t paste content. And that was the big one for me. I use that constantly in 7. But you can do it in Premiere or AE by option dragging a clip from the bin.
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Yeah, I never use replace content, though I could imagine uses.
But it does work in FCPX like I think you’re saying in Pr. Except its not a special command- just drag a clip from the Event browser on top of a timeline clip and you’re presented with several Replace options (favour Event clip in point, out point, use Event clip’s duration, or add to Audition).
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We could do that back in Edit*. Not being snide or anything…
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[Bret Williams] “But you can do it in Premiere or AE by option dragging a clip from the bin.”
I used to use this all the time and was wondering if it was possible in Pr. Thanks!
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Yeah, I never use replace content, though I could imagine uses.
But it does work in FCPX like I think you’re saying in Pr. Except its not a special command- just drag a clip from the Event browser on top of a timeline clip and you’re presented with several Replace options (favour Event clip in point, out point, use Event clip’s duration, or add to Audition).
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Thinking about it at they gym: are you saying that option-dragging a clip from a bin to the sequence replaces the clip content but maintains all it’s effects and attributes? FCPX is just a straight replace as I described above. Though I guess it would be a simple 3 part process:
1. Command-C on a clip [to copy its Attributes]
2. Drag and replace clip in the timeline
3. Paste AttributesThough it doesn’t seem to me that dragging a clip from the Bins is fulfilling the same function as pasting clip content- since pasting Attributes is typically something you do from one sequence clip to another.
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You can also select multiple effects and right click to save them ALL as a single preset. I use this all the time mostly for Ultra Key/Scale/CCR scenarios where all the talent was shot on the same set on the same day sorta stuff. Big time saver and helps keep a consistent look. Literally get one shot keyed and corrected then save it off and apply it one time to a group of clips and everything is ready to go.
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[Marcus Moore] “are you saying that option-dragging a clip from a bin to the sequence replaces the clip content but maintains all it’s effects and attributes?”
Yep. That’s exactly how it works. To me, it seems silly to have it any other way.
Also, I should mention that while Option will use the in-point of the incoming clip, holding option-shift and dragging the new clip in will use the in-point of the existing clip. Very useful trick, for example, replacing a scratch effect with a better version you just got sent. Option-Shift will swap the files and keep the in-out points from the old file. (you could also replace the old file in the Project Browser but I dislike doing that cause I’ve had weird stuff happen.)
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