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  • Need help with “Paste Attributes”

    Posted by Matthew London on March 14, 2006 at 11:11 pm

    Hi, (didn’t get any bites on my original post, so here goes again…)

    I’ve got a hundred or more 4×3 clips in my 16×9 timline. Automatic Duck brought over the “Center” value in the Basic Motion filter, but lost the Scale and Distort values.

    I would like to paste the default attribute of 133 for scale and 33.3 for distort to expand the 4×3 clips to fit a 16×9 frame, but when I paste attributes, I lose the “Center” value. In this case the Center value is used to determine which part of the 4×3 frame gets cropped in the 16×9 sequence.

    Anyway, is there any trick to pasting the attributes, but preserving the Center value?

    thank you….

    Matthew London replied 20 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Jeremy Garchow

    March 15, 2006 at 1:37 am

    When you copy a clip with all of the values you want (center, scale, distort) and then paste attributes to an unmoved, unaffected clip, the center value doesn’t translate?

    Where are you autoducking from and to?

  • Steven Gonzales

    March 15, 2006 at 1:39 am

    If all your clips have the same center value, you could set one clip up the way you need, then copy and paste attributes to all the others.

    If all your clips have different center values, maybe you could nest the whole track, and then apply the scale and distort to the whole nested track

  • Matthew London

    March 15, 2006 at 3:18 am

    Thanks guys.
    Actually each clip has a different center value. I just got finished doing them manually. Only 4 hours !

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