Adding the same effect to several events

flicktease wrote on 5/13/2003, 7:21 PM
You click on an event to select it & then open up the FX box & add an effect. The FX dialogue box remain open once it's applied. A liitle further along the timeline you wish to apply the same effect to a second event. Is there some way to apply this effect to the second clip without having to close the dialogue box & then reopen it?

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kameronj wrote on 5/13/2003, 8:01 PM
Well, unless i miss my guess as to what you are asking - the answer is no.

See...it depends on where you put the FX down. Did you put it down on the track - then the answer wouls seem to be that what ever is put on the track would pick up those attibutes.

But if you put the FX on the clip...then they are only on that clip.

What you could do is when you FX a clip....save the FX as a different name than the present. Then when you want to do that same FX to another clip...click that clips FX button and look for the FX name you just saved. THis save countless hours trynig to get a clip to have the same FX that you put on aonter clip...but may not have remembered exactly how ya did it.

Since I am relative new to VV and the boards, perhaps some other folks will let me know that this is definately a way to to it - in which case you can disregard what I just said and go with theirs!!

Hope this helps a bit.

Kameron J.
mcgeedo wrote on 5/13/2003, 9:58 PM
Here's what I do (two different things)

1. Save your settings for the first clip as a preset. Then it's a lot quicker to apply the same settings to another clip, just by recalling the preset settings.

2. Do the same thing (saving a preset) but apply it to the whole track. When the clip comes up that you want to effect, call up the FX and select the preset. When a clip comes up that you DON'T want to effect, select the "reset to none" or something like that preset for that clip.
Frenchy wrote on 5/14/2003, 1:44 PM
If I understand the question correctly, you can right-click the first event, select "copy". Then right-click second event, select "paste event attributes" to apply whatever fx you have in the first event to the second.

Frenchy
filmy wrote on 5/14/2003, 2:07 PM
The 'easy' way to do this -

Simple scenerio - say you have an interview with "Doug" and you have 5 shots of "Doug" and they are all intercut with other material. You want all the "Doug" shots to look the same.

Solution 1 -

Place all "Doug" shots on one track and apply all effects to that track using "Track Fx" only.

Solution 2 -

A) Place effect onto the clip.
B) Add as many effects as you need/want to that track.
C) Click on 'plug-in chain' and click on 'save as'.
D) On any other "Doug" shots you have just click on the "Event FX" button on the clip and load the plug-in chain you saved.

Sub-Solution -

Whenever you make adjustments for "Doug" you make a new effect pre-set. Each time you have a "Doug" shot you drop that effect onto the clip and choose your pre-set for that shot.