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How to change item properties for multiple clips
I need to change the field dominace setting for 1000+ clips on the timeline. The item properties dialog only seems to be able to change one clip at a time. Is there a smart way of doing this for all clips at once?
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Select all the clips in list view and go to the browser column. Right-click and select the field dominance you want.
Why do you need to change the dominance BTW?
All the best,
Tom
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I need to change the clips on the timeline. Changing the field dominance in the browser does not seem to affect the clips on the timeline. They stay incorrectly set. (I work in a progressive sequence, with progressive sources, but about 60% the clips are marked as interlaced. They are not interlaced, just logged that way.) It easy to fix one by one using item properties, but I need to change this on about 1500 clips.
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You would most likely do this in the Browser using the Field Dominance column.
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The clips are already in a finished edit delivered to me. Selecting all the media in the Browser and changing the field dominance setting does not affect the clips already on the timeline. They stay the same no matter what I select in the browser. I want to affect the setting for items already on the timeline. The same way the item properties dialog works but for more than one item at a time.
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HI nils,
change the field dominance in the browser has never affected a clip for me. Not sure what you are tryign to achieve, but the way i do it, for example when i have a DV sequence and want to up convert it to uncompressed, is to just add the shift fields filter (from Effects/video).Can you explain why you want to do this, and we might b able to give a workaround
thanks
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you could export an xml of the sequence and use a simple text editor to find and replace the information
1) select the sequence in the browser and choose File > Export > XML
2) create a dummy edit with a single instance of one of the clips as is, export that new sequence as an XML file as before
3) change the dominance as needed on the clip in that new sequence and then export it as an XML file again
4) compare the two files and spot the difference
5) now open the full sequence XML n a text editor and use the find and replace all function to change all the instances in one go as per the noted differencethat should work
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If the sequence is set to none, and the clips are truly progressive it really shouldn’t matter how they are set.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop” -
Thats a working solution. I’ve ended up doing that a few times. I was just hoping there was some way not involving xml and a text editor to handle a seemingly simple task.
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I have a timeline with mixed codecs and formats. IMX, DVCProHD, ProRes, Uncompressed, Animation etc. All media is progressive. Some of the media is incorrectly tagged as interlaced. I want to conform my timeline to ProResHQ using the Media manager. (Recompress). (My experience is that the recompression will also deinterlace my media if its not correctly tagged.)
So ultimately I want all my clips, in ProResHQ, with handles in a new progressive ProRes sequence where all items has their field dominance set to none. I dont want any deinterlacing introduced in this process. (All my media is already progressive.)
Anything that achieves this will solve my problem.
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Sorry, Nils. I understand your pain. I have had to do this too. It does make a difference to set all those to None. Otherwise, the clips look awful. Unfortunately, you have to do it 1×1. You can select all the clips then choose item properties in the timeline. This will at least allow you to go down the list much faster.
Good luck,
Jeremy
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