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Adding a filter to clips in browser
I could have sworn there was a way to add filters to a clip while it is still in the browser. I can add filters to the timeline, or to an idivididual clip while it’s in the viewer, but when I highlight it a clip in the Browser, all of the filters are greyed out, nor can I drag a filter onto a browser clip.
FCP Manual says: “There may be occasions where you want every instance of a master clip
edited into a sequence to have the same filter applied, such as color correction. In this
case, apply the color correction filter to the master clip in the Browser” – but then it never tells you how to do it.I could drag all of the clips to the timeline, add the filter, then drag them all back to a new bin – but damn it – I should be able to do this easy way, right? Anyone know how?
Here’s what I’m ultimately trying to do. Apply a TC Reader filter to hundreds of P2 media clips and Batch Export them at offline quality. These clips will then be sent out for transcribing, with visual TC matching the high rez P2 media.
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If you open the browser clip in a viewer, then you can add a filter to it.
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you’re right, it doesn’t work.
the sentence in the manual is misleading, I agree. What they porbably ment was that filters applied to a clip in a seq. and applied to a clip in the browser (by opening it in the viewer) are independent from each other.
you’re workaround via a seq., applying the filter to all at once and dragging them back to a new bin sounds like your best option. -
? Of course it works. Simply open the clip in the viewer and click on the filter tab, then drag the filter to the viewer. Every time you use that clip, it’ll have that filter preapplied.
I guess it’s an ok idea if you’re doing some sort of pre color correction, but since most filters are applied in context with other clips, it seems kinda pointless to me. Never even thought about using it.
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why is getting common that people don’t read the intial question.
there was never a dispute that you can apply a filter to a clip in the viewer.original question quote: “I can add filters to the timeline, or to an idivididual clip while it’s in the viewer, but…”
And David gave a good reason why HE wants to apply a filter to a clip in the browser directly.
The whole point of this forum is to ask questions, how ‘worthless’ they may sound, and for peers to give answers or confirm something is not/is possible.
Maybe we can start to get back to the roots.
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What he says is not worthless. What he saya is true. Take a few minutes and try it. What you guys do not understand is the fact that a clip in the browser is not the same as the clip in the timeline after you apply it there. If you change a clip in the timeline, like adding a blur, the clip in the browser does not have the blur. So everytime yo add that browser clip to your timeline, it is still without the blur. But as the manual says (as some other people here mentioned) if you put the clip from the browser into the viewer and apply a filter “before you send it to the timeline”, then every time you use that clip it will have that blur already applied.
What the original poster wants is something different all together because he wants to apply the effect to many different clips. He has to put all the clips in the timeline, apply the TC Reader to the first clip only, copy that clip and then select all the other clips on the timeline (Shift click the second clip and the last clip or use the selection tool) and then do a Paste Attributes. Select the Filter box from the pop up menu.
Gary
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[David Jahns] ”
I could drag all of the clips to the timeline, add the filter, then drag them all back to a new bin – but damn it – I should be able to do this easy way, right? Anyone know how?”That I’ve never gotten to work and didn’t realize there was something in the manual telling you that was possible. Really all I know how to do in this case is to apply the filter to the clip in the Viewer and then drag it back to the Browser.
[David Jahns] “Apply a TC Reader filter to hundreds of P2 media clips and Batch Export them at offline quality.”
This filter is easy enough to apply to an entire timeline of clips at once so it’s not really a big deal to do the clips to the timeline, apply filter and create a new bin. It only takes an extra few keystrokes.
Not picking on you, but this is not something to get all worked up about, it’s two or three extra keystrokes to do what you’re trying to do. One thing I always teach in my FCP training is there are always going to be things that the manual says you should be able to do with the software. They don’t always work. Instead of spending a lot of time beating your head against the wall and trying to make it work, simply find a way to get your work done and move on. If it’s a major feature that should work as advertised, then report it on the Apple site using the FCP Feedback form. YES, they do actually read those forms as I found out by meeting a few of the FCP development team out at NAB so your input is useful by the company. So if it truly is a major bug, they will investigate and hopefully get it working in a future update.
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while we are on this subject (relationship between clips in browser, viewer, and timeline) i have a question:
I am still trying to get my head around the whole master affiliate thing, so is possible to alter a master clip in the browser (speed, filters, properties, motion?0 and have that alteration show up on clips in the timeline? and arent there some things that do “transmit” from the master clip?
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forgot to say thanx in advance
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Double click a clip in the Browser to open it in the Viewer, apply a filter, poof, the Browser version now has that filter applied to it. Every time you drop that into the Timeline from then on, it already has that filter, period.
You can also keyframe, add In/Out points, etc, to the BROWSER VERSION of clips this way.
Hint: Once a clip is droped into the Timeline, you have two seperate versions; Browser and Timeline. Open the Browser version into the Viewer and the scrub bar is clean. Open the Timeline version into the Viewer and the scrub bar has dots in it, supposedly looking like film perf marks.
If you do something to the Browser version, it will not effect versions PREVIOUSLY placed in the Timeline. If you do something to the Timeline version, it will have no effect on the Browser version.
So what the original question was, is answered as Yes, you CAN place filters on the Browser version of clips. Just open the Browser version into the Viewer. Don’t think the Viewer is a Timeline only deal.
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P.S. What he wants to do, put the TC Generator filter on a bunch of clips, I would not do it in the Browser. I’d crate my Timeline first, select all, Nest, and apply the filter to the Nest. Otherwise you’re TC filter will be showing TC for each clip, not the Timeline as a whole. If you apply to individual clips the TC will reset to 0 at the start of each clip.
I use P2, and I do what he’s trying to do all the time. You have to Nest the Sequence and apply the TC filter to the Nest as a whole.
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