OK, educate me…CS4

[Jiri Fiala]

Actually, I found a way to apply an effect to multiple clips in CS3, but it’s pretty well hidden:

(I copied and pasted my original topic from DVInfo)

Hi, anyone using Labels to speed up your workflow? They are nearly unknown (I haven’t seen this in Adobe Premiere Bible, nor any tutorial video I’ve ever seen), but they can be very effective.

For example: When editing an interview shot from two angles, you might make clips from left angle blue and clips from right angle Red. This way you can have better grasp of your pacing in timeline, but you can also color correct your clips faster. You can also define labels for closeups and MCUs and apply single CC preset to all respective shot sizes at once.

Adobe hides this pretty well, but once you have your clips Labelled, you can automatically select all clips with the same label (=color) on timeline, and apply effect (or multiple effects) to every one of them. You just have to apply the clip(s) to any clip and then Edit – Copy it (them).

Then just go to Edit – Label – Select Label Group (you can make a keyboard shortcut) and Edit – Paste. Your effect is applied to every selected clip on current timeline. This can be a HUGE timesaver.

You can also set your own colors for labels, since the defaults are bit bland and similar. Now Adobe should enable Prmeiere to automatically import Bridge’s labels and make label colors visible in Thumbnail mode and it would be perfect.

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Jiri, I’ve been using this system of coloured labelling for sometime now it’s great for colour correcting and finding all instances of clips, however I’ve been requesting that cs4 have the ability to select the master clip in the project panel and have the select all instances in the timeline, like using the colours except it grabs it by the clips source name.
– Jon Barrie 😉

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Jiri Fiala]

JOn, that would be nice. I find myself occupying Adobe Request Forum every now and then, too 🙂