Apply same crop to all clips in a project?

rrrrob wrote on 2/17/2009, 8:49 PM

I have projects that can contain close to 100 clips...often the crop needs to be changed....is there a way to do it so that I can apply the same crop to all clips at once, or do I have to go through and manually apply a saved crop to each and every clip in the project???

Same with media properties...often, the project will assume the wrong pixel aspect for my clips (widescreen versus full-screen, for example)...the only way I know how to fix each and every clip for this is to right click the clip, select media properties, and change the pixel aspect...it's a major hassle this way!

If I GROUP them all together, will that accomplish this (I'm in the middle of a LONG render right now, or I'd try it myself, although I think I already did try this and it didn't work.).

Thanks!

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jetdv wrote on 2/18/2009, 8:47 AM

If they're all the same size/shape, adjust one of them, COPY it, select the REST of them, right-click one of them and choose "Paste Event Attributes".

rrrrob wrote on 2/23/2009, 10:09 AM

That may work for the crop feature...haven't tried it yet. But I just tried that with media properties...I just imported clilps and the pixel aspect ratio is 1.0 (square)....all 85 clips need to be 1.2121 (widescreen)...the copy/paste trick doesn't work for this...I have to right click each clip, choose properties, click the Media tab, then change the pixel aspect ratio...is there a similar procedure where I can change them all together?

MSmart wrote on 2/23/2009, 8:26 PM

Rather than changing the pixel aspect ratio in the Media tab, uncheck the Maintain aspect ratio box in the Video Event tab. Doing so will survive copy/paste event attribute sequence.

It's what I do to get rid of the slim black vertical bars on each side of the stills.