disabling a video effect on multiple clips

[Wolf Lawrence]

what was the answer to this? i’m about to do this, but like matt was wondering: is there an easy way to do this?

i found the answer in another thread on adobe forum where many like me see wisdom in a simple checkbox/button feature like AE+Vegas have to turn effects on/off quickly without adjustment layers:

Quickly Disable All Effects for Preview?
https://forums.adobe.com/message/3526471
by allinthemind2006:
figured out a great way to do this with adjustment layers that takes under a minute to setup. once your edit is somewhat locked down and youre ready to grade, on a single track, stretch one adjustment layer across the top of your edit. hit home to start at frame one and use the down arrow (shortcut to go to next/previous cut edit point of all clips) to move to the first cut of the sequence then hit “cmd k” (add edit) to cut the adjustment layer, continue hitting down cmd k until the adjustment layer has precisely the same cuts all the way across as your edit.

this sounds like a pain but its not, very mindless, fast and easy. once youre done, select any individual adjustment layer along with the clip beneath it and command L to link them. this will make the clip and its adjustment layer moveable as one entity. do all of your heavy effects and color grading on the adjustment layers above the clips.

a month later when the client comes back with changes, no sweat, just disable the adjustment layer track, make your edit changes then turn it back on and render out. this workflow requires you to be more organized on your sequence but will save your butt in the end.

[Christian Szokolay]

I know it doesn’t help in this case but if you know you’ll be heavily cutting up your clips and ending up with a bunch of them it is useful to nest your clips in a sequence and cut up the sequence instead of the original files. This way all you need to do is apply the color correction to the original files in the cc sequence instead of the 20 million cut up slices in your master timeline. Of course if you have 200 video files from your shoot then this trick doesn’t apply. Also I would avoid using adjustment layers for color correction as each shot usually requires a different treatment.

[Ted Coakley]

Hi Gleb, your Adjustment Layer link doesn’t go to any working video or page.