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Can you keep key frame info when pasting Filters?
Hi,
Is it possible to preserve key frame information when copying and pasting filters from clip to clip. I am doing a show where I need to constantly repeat an effect I create by key framing a filter. When I paste the filter it does not keep the keyframe information, the filter stays static. This is causing quite a bit of frustration. Any help would greatly be appreciated.
-Rich
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Copy (apple+c) the clip with the filters and keyframes you want. Then right-click or control click on the clip you want the filters applied to, and select paste attributes from the pop-up.
In the paste attributes menu tick ‘filters’ and note the option to ‘scale attributes over clip length/time” (or something similar – don’t have FCP in front of me) – this tells FCP whether or not to spread the keyframes you set on the first clip over the duration of the new clip (so, for example, a move happens over the total length of the clip, regardless of the clip length) or whether it just applies them over the same timeframe, working from frame one of the clip.
Hope that’s clear. Paste attributes is remarkably useful – even allowing you to apply these filters etc. to EVERY clip you highlight in the timeline. This means your job will require a single click!
Have fun.
Ben
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Paste Attributes, is one of my all time favorite tools in FCP. Hands down.
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Unfortunately Paste Attributes is just like copy/pasting filters in the Filters tab and won’t place the keyframes in the right position. I don’t know whether this is by design or a bug.
What will work however is simply dragging the animated filter from the Filters tab to the clip(s) on the timeline. The keyframes get correctly repositioned relative to the new destination clip.
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