Duplicating effect on the same clip

[Paul Berk]

I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you say ” I want to minimize project clutter.avoiding project clutter” .

You don’t need to duplicate an event to copy it’s attributes, just copy the event (Ctrl-c) and paste the attributes into your new event.

[Graham Bernard]

Yeah, well Paul, I read the post as meaning that out of, say 10 Fx Links in a chain, the OP wishes to copy/duplicate JUST, for example, Link 5.

What I’d like to know is the outcome hoped for?

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[Chris Fox]

Graham has it right. I want to duplicate a single FX in the chain onto the same clip.

The idea is that I want to apply the same fx with all the same settings and keyframes. I don’t want to have to manually set these for each duplicate effect. I can then tweak the settings from my newly established base settings.

Don’t worry about why I want to do it. Is it even possible?

[Marco Baer]

I’m not aware of a simple way to do this.

What you can do is, if you have adjusted your FX, just save as preset, then apply the FX as often as needed and recall the preset in each FX of the chain. Or use a script to apply a certain FX with a certain preset directly (and repeat recalling the script).

[Marco Baer]

Arrghh, isn’t there really any way to edit a comment after having posted it?

[Lex Ger]

Yes, its possible using vegas pro extension like Blacktools by Matt Carlson, >> https://f1.creativecow.net/8089/8089

It is similar to clipboard manager, you can copy the event’s attributes and paste it to the event as OVERWRITE FX or ADD FX without copying the PAN/CROP keyframes.

Using it in Vegas pro 12, but i thnk I run it in vegas pro 13, just disable first some script or extension if you have many (script limitation of vegas pro)

It has also a macro, you can use it if you have a repetitive task

[Paul Berk]

Ok if what you want is to copy one of the FX in a chain back to the same event:

Create the FX you want to copy. THis will place itself at the end of the chain. Looking like this:
Pan/crop > Effect 1

Save this as a preset called Effect1.

Now, add another FX to the chain. Anything will do. Lets say Color Curves So we now have.
Pan/crop > Effect 1 > ColorCurves

Now add Effect 1 again, this time using the preset so that it is exactly like the first Effect1 in the chain. Now you have
Pan/crop >Effect 1 >ColorCurves >Effect 1

Now select Color curves and do “remove selected plug-in” You chain now looks like this.
Pan/crop >Effect 1 >Effect 1

When saving the preset, If you have multiple FX in the chain, ( like Pan/crop >Effect1 >Effect2 >Effect 3) just uncheck everything except the one you want to save.

Not elegant — but this should do what you want — If I understand you.

[Chris Fox]

I tried saving as a preset then going to filter packages in the plugin manager, selecting my preset, and clicking add; however, the plugin chain goes back to the chain at the time the preset was created. It doesn’t add onto the existing chain.

[Paul Berk]

It seems to work for me. Maybe I’m not understanding you .. or maybe you skipped something in the directions.

The key thing is that the last FX in the chain must be something different from the one you want to apply again. So you may need a “place holder” as the last FX.

pan/crop –> Effect 1 (create preset) –> Place holder effect > copy of Effect 1 (using preset)

But once you apply the FX you want applied to the same event again, then you can delete the “place holder” .. this will give you what you want I think ..

pan/crop –> Effect 1 –> copy of Effect 1

[Chris Fox]

You perfectly understand what I am trying to do, but your method doesn’t add the effect to the chain. It just resets it.

This is what happens:

pan/crop->Effect 1

Save as preset EF1

Add another Effect

pan/crop->Effect 1->Effect 2

Load preset by going to filter packages, selecting EF1, then clicking add

Chain then resets to:

pan/crop->Effect 1