Paste Attributes

[Marcus Moore]

That’s good stuff. Most of this seems to be covered in the “Replace” dialogue in FCPX when dragging clips from the Event browser. Except for Replace with effects/settings. But I would like to see that for sure.

To be clear, I think Replace and Paste Attributes are for entirely different use cases. Replace is for Event/Source clip to Timeline operations, while Paste Attributes is for Timeline to Timeline use cases.

[David Lawrence]

[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “Also, I should mention that while Option will use the in-point of the incoming clip, holding option-shift and dragging the new clip in will use the in-point of the existing clip. Very useful trick, for example, replacing a scratch effect with a better version you just got sent. Option-Shift will swap the files and keep the in-out points from the old file.”

Just tried it and works perfectly! Super useful when working with animatic stills or title cards. So great to still be able to do this. Thank you!!!

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[Bret Williams]

Copy, replace, and then paste attributes is a fine approach to the one step adobe, 2 legacy process, but the problem is the Keyframes just seem to land anywhere they please. I can’t see why anyone would want the Keyframes anywhere but right where they were. Paste content, or option drag ensures that none of that changes and simply changes the media.

Sure you could relink to new media, but that would change every instance that you’ve used that media.

[Marcus Moore]

I’m not sure how you’re getting the results you do, but both the “Maintain Timing” and “Stretch to Fit” options work consistently for me as far as pasting keyframes is concerned.

But again I think we’re at cross purposes. Replace is for when all you want to do is replace the media of one clip in the timeline. Paste Attributes has always been, for me, about copying setting/effects from one timeline clip to one/several others.

I would love to get that Option-drag function in X, for all the reasons you use it. But that’s not what I use Paste Attributes for. Though in my everyday workflow, I’m primarily using Replace to switch out evolving Graphics elements. For that, X’s replace works just fine.

[Charlie Austin]

[Paul Neumann] “I use this all the time mostly for Ultra Key/Scale/CCR scenarios where all the talent was shot on the same set on the same day sorta stuff. Big time saver and helps keep a consistent look. Literally get one shot keyed and corrected then save it off and apply it one time to a group of clips and everything is ready to go.”

FWIW, someone posted about doing this in X on a FB group. Very nice trick:

Here’s another reason I love FCP X. To quickly colour grade interview clips in a 28 minute project, I did a basic grade of the first appearance then selected Command C to copy. In the Timeline Index, I selected all instances of the interview setup (Command click), then hit Shift Command V to paste attributes. The grade is applied to all selected clips. It’s faster than looking for the clips in the timeline. Of course you could do the same for audio sweetening – EQ, compression.

The X TL index is something we don’t talk about much here. I’ve been using it more lately and it’s a real nice implementation.

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[Marcus Moore]

During my FCPX Level 1 certification course at NAB, I came to the same conclusion about the timeline index.

In this scenario, the process is even simpler than described. Just use the search tool to find all instances of a specific clip or interview subject; then just Command-A all clips and then Paste Attributes.

A great expansion to this would be to have all clip metadata searchable in the timeline index filter tool- to search for clips in the Project with certain keywords, or shot on a certain camera, etc., etc…

[Michael Gissing]

Selectively removing attributes from a bunch of clips is just as important to me as adding. Any tricks and tips for Pr for this? If I understand the release info, that is something that CS7 is addressing.