Batch Changing Settings

[Ben Turze]

Hi Matthew,

Did you have any luck finding a way to do this? I have about a million and one sequences that I need to change the compressor for, so if you have found a way you’ll save me hours!

Thanks

Ben

[Matthew Cotter]

Sadly, I have not… alas, Im stuck doing it by hand… one quick way is by creating a “sequence preset” and then quickly loading it, however, it still requires me to open up the sequence settings on each clip….

Still looking….

M

[Ben Turze]

Darn – never mind, I guess I’ll just have to stop being lazy!

Thanks though, will let you know if I find anything.

Ben

[Stuart Paciej]

You could modify one clip then whilst its still selected find ‘Make Favorite Motion’ under ‘effects’, you can then select all and drag this effect onto any clip and it should change everything – this is probably only going to work if all your clips share the same dimensions and aspect ration though!

Or, if you select a clip that has the right settings, copy it, then select the other clips and ctrl+click choose ‘paste attributes’ it will bring up a dialogue of all your motion options. (So far I’ve only tried this on individual clips though but I dont see why it would do batches.)

Stuart

[Ben Turze]

Hi Stuart,

This only works when applying attributes to specified clips within your project. I think Matthew was after the same thing as I was, which is to be able to batch modify the ‘sequence settings’ i.e. compressor, frame size, pixel aspect etc – for several sequences rather than modifying clip settings.

There doesn’t appear to be a way to do this other than loading sequence settings one sequence at a time. The copy attributes though, as you mention, certainly does work for multiple clips but again as you rightly state, the final result of this will depend on the sizes/aspect ratio of your copied clip and the clip(s) you wish to paste to.