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How to apply a filter throughout a whole sequence?
After some useful (as they always are here!) tips and tricks, I realise that I need to apply Broadcast Safe to my sequences.
Sure I could apply that filter to each bit and piece, but that is painstakingly slow.
The other way would be to export as a (self-contained??) movie, open that up in FCP and apply the broadcast safe filter. Then I export that sequence to whatever I want.
Now, here’s the catch(?)
I’m in DVCPro50 16:9 PAL. I want to maintain highest possible quality all the way to MPEG-2. I’m in for Sheer Video (Hi, Rafael!), Video Purifier and BitVice.
Reading the forums and the net, the story of the QuickTime ref movie is a chapter on it’s own…
So, what path is the best? From what I learned “self-contained QuickTime” is not the best choice, since it will use DVCPro50. I don’t want any more compression that I already have (native footage and editing in FCP).
Exporting my timeline to Sheer Video and then importing that file into a new sequence (and change sequence settings to match the clip) gets me to re-render the entire clip. Whoa! Am I in for this? Sure, then I just add the Broadcast Safe, hits the Render command and go grab some cups of coffee…
(the output file is fed to VideoPurifier and then to BitVice).
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7 Replies
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Apply the filter to a clip, and then hit command copy and select all the other clips, then use paste attributes from the edit menu.
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Reference movie would be my choice
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You could also nest the project and then put the effect on the nested sequence.
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Good point actually, this is probably the best way
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Hm – that’s a new one. How do I nest a project? (I don’t have FCP at hand for the moment).
Can I nest the project, apply broadcast safe and from there export to lossless (Sheer) for further conversion?
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Figured it out. Great for applying “global” things, like filters, etc.
Thanks for the tip!
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Hi Criss Poisson,
found your approach the best, cause I can continue to move around the individual clips and don’t have the sequence as one block as it becomes when it is nested.
BUT for those who got a bit CONFUSED by your description as I got:
After you have applied the effect to one clip YOU HAVE TO COPY THE WHOLE CLIP not just the effect in the Viewer (as I did before). Then select the whole sequence and paste attributes. (I did it by the contextual menu – control click)
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