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Modify a Lumetri preset “globally”
Hi,
I’ve posted this on a couple other forums without success … I’m trying to find a way to modify a Lumetri effect and have the change automatically apply wherever there is an instance of that effect throughout the project. I’m not talking about using adjustment layers.For example, I have a lumetri preset called “Interview 1” and it is applied on thousands of clips throughout the project. I want to adjust the exposure slightly so that this is then updated wherever the lumetri effect “Interview 1” is found throughout the project.
I’m sure it can be done as I accidentally changed the colour temp on an effect and it did apply the change throughout my entire project wherever this effect was found. Now I want to do it deliberately and can’t find a way.
Thanks for any suggestions
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Any ideas? I think I must be missing something obvious here. Surely there is a way to adjust an effect and have it apply to all instances throughout a project….? I understand I could use adjustment layers but this is a massive project and even with adjustment layers I’d still need to manually update the effect on every adjustment layer that contains the effect.
If anyone has an idea appreciate the help. Thanks
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You cannot change a named lumetri effect across an entire timeline. You can affect multiple clips across the timeline though.
The closest thing to what you are trying to do is then called a ‘master clip effect’. You apply the lumetri effect to clips in the project window (instead of the timeline). Each time you adjust the effect on one clip (in the master tab of the lumtri color panel) it ripples to all instances of that same clip in the timeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGoAsiFgxZc
If your clips come in multiple instances though (they are separate master clips / separate videos) you will need to adjust each master clip effect separately. You cannot group multiple clips together to apply the same master effect to each. At least to my knowledge.
One workflow then could be to always find (CMD + F / CTRL + F, find all) your commonly named clips and then remove/paste the lumetri effect each time you wish to adjust it. Just give each of those clips ‘a common part’ in their naming and search for that every time. Alternatively you could also set it up to use the same video track for each of the clips you want to ‘group’ and just lock the other tracks (SHIFT click the lock to lock all and unlock only the wanted track) when selecting and then removing/replacing the lumetri effect.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately master clips don’t make the process any faster as I’m working on a project that has been “project managed” so every clip has its own master clip.
I’m just a bit confused because I did have an effect applied on various clips across the project and somehow I shifted the colour temp and now every instance of that effect the colour temp is very cool. Now even just to fix that I need to find every single instance (hundreds of them) and correct the colour temp. I’m 99.9% sure this is what happened as I can;t think of another way that all these effects had their colour temp changed.
Anyway, thanks for the reply… I’ll settle in for a long night of modifying effects…
Michael Duff –
Bearcage Productions, Australia
http://www.bearcage.com.au
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