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Applying a Custom Color Correction Preset to Multiple Clips
I have finished the preliminary edit of a short piece and am starting to color correct. I read in the FCPX manual that it was possible to apply a custom color correction preset to multiple clips in the timeline by first selecting the clips and then opening the color board and selecting the desired preset. However, every time I select multiple clips in the timeline i get a message in the Inspector that there is nothing to adjust and to select a clip and consequently have no access to the color board. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong? I read about the copy effects/apply effects workaround (and it works for me) but if there are more than just color effects on the source clip won’t these other effects also get applied to the selected clips? Thanks.
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Turn off the blue activation light for each effect you don’t want to copy in the inspector.
Then perform the copy and paste effect function to your clips.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Brendan
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Duh! Should have thought of that. Thanks!
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Great tip.
Still feels like a workaround. I used to think the past attributes dialogue in FCP7 was klunky, but I appreciated how powerful it was and now I miss it.
I’ll bet when you turn the blue boxes off, and on again after you do your copy, that things get unrendered. More extra steps.
And in FCP7 I often drag an effect with parameters right into a bin… like a particular color effect. Need a workaround for that.
I like the new features of FCX, but I’m sure going to miss all of that flexibility.
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I’m calling it FCX. They took the “pro” out, so I will too.
I’ll reconsider after the first upgrade.Mark Morache
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Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
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yes, but that copies and pastes the audio effects as well, including for example any fade in or fade in or fade outs on the audio.
Any ideas how to get around this/not copy and paste adjustments made to the audio?
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Chris – I got around this problem by appending a “virgin” clip to the end of the completed storyline (a clip that I could use as a template for the overall color correction), made the color corrections I wanted to apply to all the other clips in the storyline to that appended clip, copied that color correction, selected the other clips I wanted to apply the correction to, pasted the correction to those clips, then deleted the appended clip. It is obviously a real kludge, but it did work. This something Apple really has to fix!
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Ken
thanks, tried that out and it works well. Actually just discovered another way around the problem, although not much quicker. If you detach audio (control, shift, s) on the clips that you want to paste to then any effects you paste will not affect the audio part.
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