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disabling a video effect on multiple clips
Hello All,
We are in the process of doing the music and ambient sound for our feature length film and I am splitting it up into three acts.However, my colour corrector has done some work using Magic Bullet Looks on the entire movie which has made it run ridiculously slow on the timeline. Is it possible to disable the magic bullet effect globally for a temporary period so as to make the music and ambient sound editing more manageable?
Right now saving the files as draft output files (.mpg quality level 3) seems to take a very long time to render so that is not a good option and some slight changes have been made to the movie after colour correction which makes the colour corrected sequences be the most up to date sequences to work with.
If anyone can assist us with this process or offer some solutions it would be most appreciated.
Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago) -
13 Replies
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The only way to disable MB is to turn off the effect in the Effect Controls of every clip.
For the entire timeline you can only remove effects in one go. -
That seems rather inefficient as an option. Thank you for the answer but I find it surprising that software plugin like this does not have an easier alternative to be temporarily removed.
I will see how well we can edit the sequences in draft preview mode as rendering directly in premiere, even small sequences, is taking a lot of time.
If anyone has found a solution to this, perhaps a faster encoding format for preview or a feature in Premiere not well known, please let me know.
Mikkell Khan
Director
Diamond Films Ltd. (Trinidad and Tobago) -
MB is very CPU intensive, it should be the very last thing you add before rendering out to final.
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Is there still no way to temporarily disable multiple effects across a timeline?
If so, it’s amazing that this feature hasn’t been added yet.
I’m having the same problem. The music label have come back to me with an alternate version and wish me to re-sync the clip to the new version. But I can’t sync it properly because all the FX make the playback on the timeline slow.
I could really do with a solution to tempoarily disable all the added FX across all clips so I can resync the sound to the alternate and then switch the effects back on again.
Seems to me that is is a perfectly reasonable production task. It will take me hours to disable effects across all clips and then re-enable them later.
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Has this feature been added yet?
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In CS6 go to project panel -> right click -> New Item…-> Adjustment layer.
You will be applying MB effects (and all other effects) to this Adjustment layer instead.
Make sure you have them all on a separate video track.
By Toggling Track Output (click on an icon with an eye to make it invisible) you will be able to disable it.Hope it helps.
Gleb Galkin
http://www.laVcinema.com -
Hi Gleb,
Can you clarify how to make this option a viable one for me? In my example (a 9min short film) there are around 135 cuts/clips in the timeline each requiring a different color tweak in Magic Bullet. So would I add the adjustment layer for effects(MB) and go right the timeline cutting the adjustment layer up at all the same places as the underlying footage. A little time consuming to set up, but I guess in the long run it would save time?Cheers
Matt -
Hi Matt,
Here is a little video showing how I do it on the timeline.Cheers,
Gleb
Gleb Galkin
http://www.laVcinema.com -
Thank you Gleb, I was having the same problem. Brilliant solution 🙂
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Hey all,
You could duplicate all of your clips up one video level and on that level use the CLIP -> REMOVE EFFECTS. Then just toggle track output on the effect heavy layer to OFF. Of course you then need to move both if changing your edit…
Currrently working on a commercial shot in 4k and MB looks was killing me. But I wanted to give the client a look before doing a color pass. This proved to be a nice little workaround.
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