Exporting for Color – Find all variable speed clips

[Jerry Hofmann]

Maybe… click on the green and blue striped button in the lower left area of the timeline window (or type option+ t)… an area below the clips opens and if there’s a blue line under a video clip, it indicates there’s a Motion effect applied… variable speed changes would be indicated there .. if you’ve applied a lot of other Motion tab effects, then it becomes less useful, but might help you find them faster. AFAIK I don’t think there’s a search function that will find them en masse…

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[Walter Biscardi]

No way to Search for them that I know of, but this is the method I have found to find them all manually.

Turn off the Thumbnails in the Timeline.

Set the Tracks to a large viewing size. Not small.

Zoom way in on the timeline, so that you’re seeing three second increments or less on the time scale.

Now just step through your shots and look at the name of the clip in the Video Track. It will say “File Name (Speed%)” for any shot that has been speed changed.

Such as “Cam 1 Take 2 (50%)” If you don’t see a percentage there, it’s not speed changed..

if you have a Variable speed change it will say File Name (Variable)

This is the easiest way to do this after the fact.

Better still, if you know your show is going into Color, place a Marker on the any clip that you apply a speed change to as you edit.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks for tips.

In the future I’ll definitely mark the clips ahead of time.

[Martin Baker]

Dustin

There is a way to do it but not directly:

– Create a temporary bin
– Select all the clips in your sequence and drag to the bin
– If it’s not already visible, right-click on a column header and show the “Speed” column
– Click on the Speed column to sort the clips in the bin by their speed
– For all clips that aren’t 100%, open them into the Viewer then press F to match frame into the current sequence, and the playhead will move to show where they are.

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[Jerry Hofmann]

NICE!

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[Ricardo Sánchez-sáez]

Why specifically do you need to find clips with variable speed before sending all the sequence to Color?

I’m having a problem with Color related to this matter: I have several clips with inverse speed (but not variable), but Color won’t let me add keyframes because it says there clips have variable speed. Any tips on this?

[Michael Gissing]

If it is a simple clip reverse 100% you could put all those shots on a particular video track, remove the reverse on one shot and paste attributes to the rest of the clips, send to Color and on the return from Color, change the speed on that track for all clips via paste attributes.

That way you can keyframe the shots in Color. Otherwise baking by making a QT of speed shots is the only way i know of using keyframes in Color.

[Ricardo Sánchez-sáez]

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately my project is a mix of reversed files a 76% speed files. I think it is just too much trouble baking all those clips so I guess I’ll just have to grade without keyframes.

[Julo Quinto]

Brilliant! I should’ve searched the cow about this “solution” way back.

Taking it one step at a time.

[Glenn Camhi]

Martin, thank you — a few years later — for saving us a lot of time! That’s an elegant method.