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Motion effects and nested sequences for split screen
Hi:
I’d sure appreciate some help with this. I’m a newbie having to learn fast, and this community has been very kind to me. I’m trying to cut a two-screen installation where each screen will be fed by a separate synced server. In order to see both screens at the same time as I’m cutting, I’ve created a split screen using wireframe. To do this, I created nested sequences for each of the screens, laid them on V1 and V2, and scaled and repositioned each of them. Voila: I can see the two screens simultaneously in the canvas. However I now want to tweak the edits in both sequences, so I want to be able to work with both of the sequences simultaneously in the timeline with the component clips visible. Alas the nested sequences don’t show the component clips. I thought I could open the nested sequences and then paste them back into my splitscreen sequence with all the edits visible, but when I open them in a separate tab, they are full screen; that is, the motion effects don’t seem to have been applied to them. Is there some way to make this work with nested clips, or is there another way to apply motion effects to all the clips in a sequence at once without having to create a nested sequence?
Thanks very much
Fred
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7 Replies
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Fred,
I think to do what you want to do you will have to edit both halves of your split screen on separate video tracks in the same timeline, but without nesting.
DRW
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Yes, I do too, but then is there any way to apply the scaling etc to all the clips in each sequence without using nests? It would be really tedious to scale all 60 clips in each sequence one by one. This is a newbie question; I’m sure there must be an easy way to do this.
Thanks
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copy the scaling attributes form the first clip, select the rest then paste attributes
Peter
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Thanks. That’s the answer! But I guess I have to paste into each successive clip individually? It won’t let me paste into a selected group of clips. I’m using Option-V to paste. Anyway it’s only about 60 clips.
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Pete’s right, but it raises an interesting point: Wouldn’t it be nice if you could apply attributes to a video track, so that new clips automatically took the new scaling/colour correction etc.?
Just a thought.
Ben
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Select the clips, right click or control click and then choose paste attributes from the contextual menu.
Peter
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Thanks, Peter, and thanks to everyone who helped with this. It worked!
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