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How to remove just one filter from a multiple clips in a long sequence
Hi. I have a two hour documentary full of FX, color filters, nests, it is very complex. Some clips scattered throughout this galactic sequence have deinterlacing on them, and I need to output a version of the program (for film transfer) that has all deinterlacing turned off. In FCP 3 it was easy — I closed FCP, removed delinterlace from the application folder, rendered the show, output it, then put back the deinterlace plugin when finished.
Final Cut 5 however has no discernable deinterlace component in the .app package. Help! I need to find a way to either remove the delinterlace plug-in temporarily, or otherwise have a way within Final Cut to remove the deinterlace filter WITHOUT removing all other filters and attributes. Help! (Going through each clip and manually deleting the deinterlace filter is untenable, not with all the nests, so that is not an option — I’m in a pickle and really need some wisdom. Is there a way with scripting? XML project file editing / search/replace? Somebody understand the .app package? Something?) Thank you!
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the filter is embedded in the project file itself, no amount of editing the app package will help you.
you might try exporting as an XML and then editing the file to remove all instances of the De-interlace filter:
open the xml in a textt editor and do a search for “De-interlace”, in each instance remove everything betweenand for that filter -
Thank you for replying! I’ve never looked at an XML file – will be interesting. I will try that monday and report back.
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You could always remove the filter from one clip, then highlight all the other clips and Remove Attributes. Remove them all (or the ones you choose) from all the clips. Then highlight the one clip that still has the filters, Copy, highlight all the clips you highlighted previously, and Paste Attributes.
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hmmm … autoformatting kinda stripped out the important info there
it said remove everything between “< effect >” and “< / effect >” for that filter
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If all the clips have the same set of filters, this will work. If not, it would be kind of dangerous
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Autoformatting? What’s that?
Re: “the filter is embedded in the project file itself, no amount of editing the app package will help you.”
Actually, let’s say that the filter is not embedded in the project, only the descriptions for the use of the filter are, otherwise every project file would have to be a full application. In FCP3, when you remove a particular filter from the application support files, then when you reopen the project, the project file is “blind” to any plug-ins that don’t exist. Then you simply redo the renders, and viola, the filter effect is gone. But later versions of FCP seem to be built completely differently, I don’t see a way to “kill” any one filter from the app. Hence, my best laid plans….
Re: Removing attributes — sigh, indeed, it is as Andy says, no two clips have the same filters, it’s a good idea, but that one’s not gonna work for me. Anyway, thank you!
I still haven’t had a chance to play with XML files. Is your “autoformatting” comment suggesting that it won’t work? Here I am at home, there is my Final Cut at work, and look there, the weekend between me and it… hmm…. time for ice cream. Cheers!
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sorry to be confusing. by autoformatting, I meant the auto-formatting of the posts here on the Cow … it had stripped out some of the content of my previous post.
“actually, let’s say that the filter is not embedded in the project” … alright, you can say that if you want to, but saying it won’t make it true 😉
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