Applying filter to entire master clip

[Phil]

the filter needs to be applied BEFORE you start to drop them into your timeline. i’m still new to FCP, so i’m not sure how you would go about replacing all of the clips with a newly filtered master clip. if you could, maybe nest that sequence into another, and apply the filter to that???….but if the other camera is in that same sequence, you won’t be able to do it

[Jeff Carpenter]

You can select as many clips as you want on the timeline and then drag the filter to one of the clips and it is copied to ALL of them.

Of course, you’d have to go in and adjust each on individually. Maybe you can save a filter in the browser with the settings you want before you drag it. But at any rate, the selecting-then-dragging thing does work.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

Its a matter of KNOWING that this kind of situation WILL come up in a multi-camera edit.
I solve it by simply editing each camera to its own track.
(All of Cam 1 on V1, Cam 2 on V2, etc.)
Dissolves are handled with keyframed opacity.

Then, I can just select that entire Video track’s clips and drop the filter on so that all clips from that camera are affected at once.

Like I say, I KNOW that multi-camera edits will almost ALWAYS require a filter to be added to EACH camera individually (and sometimes re-adjusted) so I keep all of my cameras isolated from the beginning.

BUT… with FCP 5’s new “multi-cam edit” function, I don’t know HOW I’ll be able to continue this work-flow.

[Jeff Carpenter]

BUT… with FCP 5’s new “multi-cam edit” function, I don’t know HOW I’ll be able to continue this work-flow.
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I’ve been thinking about this a lot too. The best idea I have so far is to correct each track, export it and then re-import them to be edited, but with DV that’s a lot of re-compressing that I’d prefer to avoid.

The other choice is to just go through the timeline after I’ve edited it, dropping corrections where they’re needed and hoping there’s not enough problems to make the time saved by using multi-cam pointless.

Neither of these is a great solution, does anyone else have thoughts on this?

[Renny Mccauley]

Here’s what you can do with multicam though. Run multi-cam like usual and then collapse the multi-clip once everything is tweaked.

Click somewhere in the blank space of the timeline and type cmd-f. Type in the name of one of your clips, like “Cam 2.” Select Find All. This will highlight all the clips in the timeline that have that name. Pull these clips up one track and you have the same outcome as you would have in old-school multi-cam editing.

Then just color correct your first clip from each track. Copy the clip and alt-v it to the rest of the clips on the track. And your done.
Renny

[Arnie Schlissel]

OK, it’s actually rather easy.

From the head of your timeline, find the 1st affiliate of the master clip in question. Apply the filter(s) & adjust as needed. Copy the clip. Command-F to Find, type in the Master clip name, click the “Find All” button. Every occurrence of that clip will now be highlighted in your timeline. Deselect the 1st occurrence by Command-Clicking on it, then Option-V to Paste Attributes, click the “Filters” checkbox, then the “OK” button. Save your work, then go have a beer, you’ve earned it.

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Arnie
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[Josh Helfferich]

You posted this 7 and a half years ago, and I made an account just to thank you for saving my butt today in 2013. You’re wonderful.