Applying an effect to all clips in FCP

[Tom Wolsky]

Select all the clips and apply the Desaturate filter from the Effects menu. Does that not work for you.

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 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Mark Palmer]

That’s the usual way to do it, yes, if you only want to add a filter and not make further adjustments within the filter.

But I want to be able to make filter adjustments to all clips after it’s been added instead of having to make changes to each clip’s filter individually.

For instance, add desaturate 100% to all clips. Then go in and see how desaturate 90% works on all clips. Then 80%, etc. I want to be able to try out different filter settings until I get the one I like.

In AE, you add an adjustment layer and make changes to the filter there which affects all clips globally. That way you can turn them all on or off, increase or decrease settings, etc.

[Tom Wolsky]

So you don’t just want to Desaturate it. You want to do something else. Then you apply the effect to one clip, adjust it as you like, copy the clip and paste attributes to the others.

Or you nest the clips and apply the filter to the nested sequence, like compifying or pre=comping in AE.

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 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Mark Palmer]

Nesting sounds like what I need, but how do I apply a filter to to a nested sequence? Whenever I try to apply a filter to a sequence within a sequence, it takes me back to the original sequence and I can only apply it to each clip within the original sequence.

[David Battistella]

Open the nest in the view and apply the filter to the clip in the viewer

OR

drag the clip from the browser onto the clip.

David

[Mark Palmer]

“Open the nest in the view and apply the filter to the clip in the viewer”
Okay, but where do I then find the filter settings to modify them in relation to the nested sequence?

I select all clips. I convert to a nested sequence.
I click on the nested sequence.
I apply the filter.
I don’t see the filter settings pop up anyplace, so I don’t know where I can change them.
When I double-click on the sequence as I would on a clip to see the filter settings, it reverts back to the original clips, not what I want.

[Todd Gillespie]

hit the ‘return’ key when you have the nested clip on the timeline.

Cheers,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Mark Palmer]

Thanks, that works!

Okay, I’m looking at the nested sequence, and some of the images didn’t come in. Instead there’s a blank, completely green screen. What happened here? I’m working with HD footage.

[Thomas Imbrigiotta]

BTW you can access attributes of a nest or subclip by double clicking the clip in the timeline while holding option and shift at the same time.

As was said I would just apply the filter to one clip. Then copy the clip (Apple + C). Next, highlight the rest of the clips and paste the attributes you desire (in this case the filters) (option + V).