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Quick way to search for effects in the Timeline?
Hi,
I need to quickly find all occurences of an effect that is not rendering properly (Desaturate Highlights).
The Find command will not search for effects which are being used on clips in the timeline, so I have to open each clip to check. Is there any way to speed this up? I have over 1,000 clips in the sequence!
thanks….
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3 Replies
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Not exactly. But you can export the sequence as XML, then open in Text Edit.
Use the Find feature in Text Edit to search for each instance, and delete it.
When finished, import the XML back into FCP and your filters will be gone.
I just did it on a short test sequence and it worked perfectly. -
download this.
https://www.spherico.de/filmtools/readXML/index.html
Export your sequence as XML.
1)Open readXML
2)Check Process Filters
3)Load your XML
4) In the Window menu, open the Filter Window
5) Select the filter you are looking for in the pulldown menuThis will give you a list of the clips that use this filter. You can use the search in FCP to find these clips and disable the filter.
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Great ideas.
Off to XML land…
Thank you !
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