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Best way to add an effecct to an entire sequence?
I only know how to apply an effect to every clip in a sequence, but when I do it they clips are effected indivivually.
I want to be able to put an effect over the entire sequence, but be able to change that one effect and have it influence every clip under it.
When I used to edit in Avid, I could do this easily. i.e to add widescreen to the sequence, I would create a blank clip above the entire sequence, then add the widescreen to that one clip. Then everything under it would be widescreen, and to sdjust it, I would adjust that one clip. Rather than having to adjust each clip individually in FCP.
Please Help, thanks
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Nesting.
Nest your sequence and you will have one clip. Apply the filter.
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yes but I still want to be able to make adjustments to individual clips in my sequence, so nesting would not be the way to go. Surely there is some other way to do it??
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No other way that I know of.
I work on an Avid and miss that ability too. Can’t do something similiar in FCP…although the nest should auto-update if you work on the original cut. Mine always do.
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If it’s a widescreen filter you want to apply, you can make a still in photoshop with an alpha channel.
Import that into FCP and put it on a track above the rest of the clips.
I’ve also just converted to FCP and I love it, but this is one thing I really miss./Erik
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I am an old Avid editor also, and when I switched over to FCP, this was one of the this I was missing… but not anymore….
If you want to do a widescreen effect…. I put a SLUG on an empty layer, apply a white color mask, make it the size you want, then invert it… and voila you now have a layer on top of all the other ones, that you can still control…
For other effects, again apply them to a SLUG on top of the other layer, then right-click on the SLUG layer, change your composite mode to ADD and you now have full control over the bottom layers…
if you want to modify an effect on just one clip, just use the B shortcut to give you a RAZOR, and cut the SLUG… I prefer using the RAZOR over the ADD EDIT, because ADD EDIT will cut all the layers, instead of just the one you want…
that’s it for now…
have fun,
markyyy
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Put the effect on one clip and tweak it there until you have it ready to put on all the other clips.
select the effected clip in the timeline and apple+C (copy).
select all the other clips you want to apply the effect to. Hit Option+V. Now it asks you which of the attributes from the one clip you want to apply to all the others. In this case it would be a filter, or if your cropped it to a letterbox shape, then crop.Voila, all the clips you selected now have the same filter, or motion, or what-have-you. However, you can now double click on any given clip so it opens in the viewer, and you can make any finer adjustments there. I do this frequently with the color corrector, or with motion and cropping, or just to add drop shadows to a bunch of items.
DWR
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