• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  removing effects

  Posted by Robbie Allen on April 27, 2007 at 10:16 am

  Hopefully I’m just being an idiot and there’s a quick fix…

  I have a sequence that consists of about 50 shots on one layer of video. Each of these has a (different) color corrector and a thin red border in the filters.

  I want to remove just the red borders but leave the CCs intact.

  Any ideas? Currently I’m doing them all individually, and it’s not the end of the world, but knowing a fix would be good.

  Robbie
  http://www.lobsterpictures.tv

  Andy Mees replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Andy Mees

  April 27, 2007 at 11:11 am

  Robbie

  there is no direct way in FCP to remove a single specific filter from multile clips that also have other filters applied.

  what you can do is export your sequnece as an XML file
  open the XML file in a text editor and search the text of it for the red border filter
  copy the full text of the filter from [effect] to [/effect]
  open the text editors Find and Replace dialog
  paste the copied text into the Find field, and leave the Replace field blank
  press the Find and Replace All button
  Save the result and then reopen the XML in FCP

  the new sequence generated will be as before biut minus any instance of the removed effect.

  … is that faster than manually removing each instance in the timeline? depends how many you’ve removed already probably

  cheers
  Andy

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