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Total Adjustment – like Adjustment Layers for FCPX
Hi guys
This has been around for a bit, but I just found it, in answer to a common query from a colleague new to FCPX (“where’s paste attributes?”) – Google led me here:
Effectively, it lets you create an ‘adjustment layer’ in FCPX, so CC, scale, distort etc. are all applied in the clips below it.
Now – not the same as Paste Attributes, as you can’t then go in a tweak settings (you might as well use Paste Effects for this) but useful for lots of other occasions.
I’ve never seen anything like this for an NLE – only AE offers this sort of effect layering, where it’s clearly of wider usefulness.
Two things I like about this: 1. It’s free. 2. It shows how open and adaptable FCPX is becoming for developers. I see a Pro App economy building around FCPX already that reminds me of the iOS app store – ‘freemium’ business models, and plenty of economies of scale.
Hope that’s of interest to some of you.
Ben
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Hi,
The procedure has been around since a few days after 10.0 release.
It’s a simple title effect. Open Motion (which is recommend to buy if you don’t own it), create a new title and delete the text box. Publish and you’re done.– Andreas
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its the only way to apply a working broadcast safe filter as I am aware, be nice if there was something similar with audio
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[Ben Scott] “its the only way to apply a working broadcast safe filter as I am aware, be nice if there was something similar with audio”
How about making all your audio into a single compund clip and adding a limiter to that? Or have you thought of that?
Simon Ubsdell
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[Simon Ubsdell] “How about making all your audio into a single compund clip and adding a limiter to that? Or have you thought of that?”
I’d rather have a roles mixer with inserts or master bus to do this like Pro Tools.
Jon
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[jon smitherton] ”
I’d rather have a roles mixer with inserts or master bus to do this like Pro Tools.”Yes, but that’s not what you asked, is it? What I suggested would act in every meaningful sense like a master bus for the purposes of limiting your final mix.
That said, in many parts of the world you’ll now need a lot more than that to produce “legal” audio as loudness metering has now become or is becoming a standard and you can’t do that yet inside FCPX.
Although the great folks at NuGen have already produced suitable loudness metering plug-ins for FCP7 and Media Composer:
https://www.nugenaudio.com/visLM_loudness-meter_VST_AU_RTAS.php
Simon Ubsdell
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[Ben Holmes] “Effectively, it lets you create an ‘adjustment layer’ in FCPX, so CC, scale, distort etc. are all applied in the clips below it… I’ve never seen anything like this for an NLE – only AE offers this sort of effect layering, where it’s clearly of wider usefulness.”
Just for completeness, Avid Media Composer can do this, too. Add filler on a track above your edit, and effects applied to the filler will work like effects applied to an adjustment layer.
Walter Soyka
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