EFX Designation on a timeline clip

[Tom Wolsky]

There is no indicator to show how many effects are applied to a clip. Turning on the clip keyframe button in the lower left corner of the timeline will tell you if any filters or motion effects have been applied to a clip.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Sam Roberts]

Right, yes I forgot about the keyframe designations on the timeline. I usually have them turned off unless I need to make an adjustment after the effect has been applied. Not quite as simple and elegant as that other editing program I was using, but then again, with that one you couldn’t adjust the effect right on the timeline.

Thanks Tom.

[Peter Stewart]

Don’t forget you can right click on the keyframe button and choose what’s visible.

Doesn’t help with how many effects are showing, but you can make your workspace a bit more streamline if you don’t want the actual keyframes taking up space on your timeline.

Peter Stewart
Freelance Editor (UK)

Currently cutting ‘Peter Ackroyd’s Venice’ (Sky Arts)

[Victor Perez]

If you set your playhead sync in the Canvas to OPEN
and select the FILTERS tab in the Viewer
with your playhead stopped over a clip in the Sequence you can see what filters are on that clip by looking at the Viewer

Hope that helps.

Victor

[Sam Roberts]

Thanks Victor that’s a cool little trick.

Tell me something. When people say right click on something do they mean press control and right click or just right click by itself?

Having just moved over from Windows a right click is a right click. But in the MAC OS it seems you can’t do much by just clicking. You have to also press a key on the keyboard as well. Takes some getting used to.

[Andrew Kimery]

If someone says “control click” it means control+left click. Which is the same function as just right clicking. If you are using a Mighty Mouse (the default Apple mouse) you have to go into the system preferences and enable the ‘right click’ function in order to get both left and right clicking functionality. Or you could just buy a better mouse. 😉

-A

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Sam Roberts]

Thanks Andrew, that makes life a little easier for an old PC guy.