Copying single effects to other clips ?

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Copying single effects to other clips ?

Posted by Manuel Wenger on June 23, 2011 at 9:13 pm

Played arround with some footage shot on Alexa and i start to like X.
I won´t use it commercially until I´m able to get it to talk to DaVinci in whatever form, but i think this is just a matter of time.

One thing i didn´t find yet is how i can copy a single transofrmation.

We shot Anamorphic with 1,33 lenses and i did a simple change in the y-Axis Transformation to desqueeze the image. I can cmd-c alt-cmd-v copy the whole effect tree, but i jsut want to copy the single transformation. with ctrl-v i can open the videoanimation for a clip, and i thought i can drag and drop the desired effect to the next clip, but that doesnt work.

thanks
Manuel

Manuel Wenger
DOP / DIT / Digital Colorist
Munich – Germany

Mario Gongora replied 13 years, 3 months ago 12 Members · 21 Replies
21 Replies

Mario Gongora
June 23, 2011 at 9:18 pm

I actually had the same question… Anyone?
Simon Ubsdell
June 23, 2011 at 9:22 pm

According to the manual it copies the whole lot and you can’t choose unlike the way it used to be.

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
Mario Gongora
June 23, 2011 at 9:33 pm

Thank you Simon, and pardon my ignorance, but by manual do you mean the HELP in the upper menu bar? or is there an actual manual we can download somewhere?
Thanks for your help!
Mario.
Simon Ubsdell
June 23, 2011 at 9:45 pm

[Mario Gongora] “is there an actual manual we can download somewhere?”

Go here:

https://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0/

then click on the little printer icon in the top right hand corner, select “book”, then from your print menu, select save as PDF (bottom right hand corner of the print dialogue).

No need to physically print it unless you’ve got a thing against the rainforest!

🙂

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
Noah Kadner
June 23, 2011 at 10:04 pm

Correct- copy, paste attributes is a menu item and it pastes everything- including effects, transform, etc.

Noah

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Mario Gongora
June 23, 2011 at 10:06 pm

Wonderful! Thanks!, and yes… i just saved the rainforest a little bit. 🙂
Simon Ubsdell
June 23, 2011 at 10:07 pm

[Mario Gongora] ” i just saved the rainforest a little bit. :-)”

Good man!

Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com
Tom Brooks
July 3, 2011 at 11:35 am

It also pastes audio effects along with the video ones. Had to “Break Apart Audio” and copy/paste to get only the video changes. Another byproduct of the trackless paradigm.
John Godwin
July 3, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Ok, I figured this one out:

1 Click on the little symbol on the upper left of a clip.

2. Open Video Animation.

3. Use the little blue checkboxs and turn off the effects you don’t want to copy

4. Option-Apple-C

5. Select the clip you want to paste to and Option-Apple-P. It pastes only the effects that are turned on.

There may be a better way, but that just worked. I only was testing the video effects, so don’t know if the audio effects copy as well. Hopefully there is a better way to do this that’s fewer steps

I get the feeling the most rushed feature of this release may be the manual and help files. There seem to be a lot of undocumented features.

Best,
John
Lawrence Eaton
July 9, 2011 at 1:20 pm

John,

Tried the method you listed above and I can’t seem to copy and paste the attributes for the video..and I now seem to be able to crash ‘on-demand’ FCP X…

I’ll go and play some more, methinks. Any help, please?

Lawrence

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