Copying single effects to other clips ?

[John Godwin]

I’m sorry you’re having a problem. All I know is that the copy and paste works for me here, on a Mac pro tower, and iMac and a MacBook pro. I’d try opening a new project and seeing if that one behaves normally, in case the problems are some form of corruption in the current project.

Best,
John

[Lawrence Eaton]

John,

I think it was me that was obviously not taking note of your steps. It works. Thank you but I will say I liked the command>C and Option>V shortcuts a lot better – but then again, I haven’t been using FCP X enough, yet.

Many thanks…

Lawrence

[Martin Jangaard]

Manuel,

I found out this today, whilst trying to copy a single effect/colour correct/transform etc between clips. If you open the video animation pane for a clip in the timeline it lists all of the effects that are applied to that clip just above it – I’m just the same way as in the ‘inspector’ window. If you then click on the dark blue name bar of the ‘effect’ that you want from this list, it’ll highlight light blue. Then copy it by pressing option (alt) cmd c. Then highlight the clip you want to copy to and the yellow outline appears around it – expand out the video animation for this clip and now option (alt) cmd v, and the single selected ‘effect’ will be pated and applied.

Hope this helps.

Martin

[Lawrence Eaton]

Martin,

This works a treat! would be better if you could cmd+ select or high light which attributes you wanted to use and then drag and drop of Opt+drop (as in duplicate) to another clip.

BUT, it works and that is good to know. Thank you.

Lawrence

[Jasper Russell]

This copied all the parameters when I tried. I wanted to copy the color settings from clip A to Clip B. Each time it would copy all the parameters including transform scale. Each time it would copy the 100% from clip A over my 115% scale I had on Clip B.

The only way I could just copy the color settings was to uncheck the boxes as mentioned above.
Did it realy work for you? or did you just have all other parameters the same on the clip you were copying to so it looked like it was only copying the one you wanted????

[Mark Mallett]

I cannot get any of the above to work.

How silly is it to leave out copying of a single effect??

[Lawrence Eaton]

Mark,

The steps I go through are: (they may be pedantic but bare with me please?)
1. Highlight the clip in the timeline
2.Press CTRL+V to open the Video Animation section of that clip.
3.Select the effect you want to copy.
4. Use CMD+C to copy it.
5. Highlight the clip you wish to impose those parameters on.
6. Press CMD+opt+V to paste the effect

https://reels.creativecow.net/film/copying-effects-to-clips

Lawrence

[Mark Mallett]

Hey Lawrence,

Thanks for responding. For me, this seems to copy ALL the effects. Lemme go back in and double-check, but I’m pretty sure it copies everything….

Regards.

[Mark Gillett]

This still copies all effects… Its only useful if colour is your only effect…

I am not sure I can believe this oversight. An “apply to selected” button/option is just the norm… I use Lightoom for images and they should look at this for ideas.. It cover every scenario without being complicated.

M

[Kyle Bethea]

This thread hasn’t been touched in many months and perhaps everyone has already figured it out, but I thought I should put the answer here in case others stumble across it as I did:

Use PASTE ATTRIBUTES, instead of ‘paste effects”. PASTE ATTRIBUTES will bring up a box which allows you to select which attributes/effects you won’t copied.

I was pulling my hair out because I was trying to copy color grades across multiple clips, and ‘paste effects’ was wiping out all of my audio fades and levels.

Paste Attributes works!