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Copying/Duplicating Tracks – decoupling
This seems so basic, and I thought the same solution would work with a still image as it did with generated media, but I can’t quite figure it out.
I want to use the same still image in two different tracks, but if I copy, or drag it out of the media bin into two separate tracks, or even duplicate the tracks. Both tracks have the same media effects plugin chain. How can I separate these two tracks. The “Reference/Copy” thing only seems to exist for generated media.
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6 Replies
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HD Platinum 10 btw
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if you copy an event from a track and paste it to another track, you are also going to bring over any effects applied to the event. If you want a clean copy with no effects added to the event, go to the project media pool and pull the copy from there.
John Gordon
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That’s what I would have thought. But when I pull the same image from the Media Bin onto a new Video track it duplicates the existing effect, and if I disable the effect in either track, it is disabled in the other.
[John Gordon] “if you copy an event from a track and paste it to another track, you are also going to bring over any effects applied to the event. If you want a clean copy with no effects added to the event, go to the project media pool and pull the copy from there.”
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did you apply the effect at the project media level or event level?
John Gordon
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Ah! I think that must have been the problem. Thanks.
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The key word here might be “Media FX”…
Did you apply Media FX, as distinct from Event FX or Track FX ?
If yes, then those FX apply to the media item itself, so everywhere you use that media item, it will have the same FX applied. This could be color correction on a particular video clip, for example.
If you want FX on a single instance of that media (ie an Event on the timeline), then apply Event FX. If you want all events on a particular track to have the same FX, then apply Track FX. If you want all events in the project to have the same FX (eg broadcast colors), then apply Output FX.
EDIT John kinda beat me to it… 🙂
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