colour correct in bin?

ushere wrote on 3/20/2009, 8:31 PM

another senior moment....

can i cc clips in my media bins?

eg. i have an hour interview as one clip - it'll get chopped to about 3 > 4 minutes or so, but rather than cc on the time line i want to cc the whole clip in the bin so when i use it on the tl it's ready to go.

i often drop in tc in the bin, but cc doesn't appear to work.

obviously i could cc whole clip on tl then render, but....

leslie

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/20/2009, 9:20 PM

right click on the media & use "media FX". That applied it to the whole clip, no matter how many events it's been broken up in to.

ushere wrote on 3/20/2009, 9:53 PM

thanks hf,

but if it's in the bin (ie. media pool), how do i monitor what i'm doing?

or does this work from the tl?

ever so confused and bewildered.....

ok.....

dropped clip on tl, cc'd with media fx, deleted from tl, but cc'ing remains in bin.

many thanks.....

rmack350 wrote on 3/21/2009, 4:16 PM

Yes, you have to put a clip onto the timeline to see what you're doing when you apply mediaFX. Very poor implementation on SCS part. Crappy design but someone got to tick it off their checklist ages ago and no one at SCS has ever gone back to make it right. You need to be able to see what you're doing without dropping it onto the timeline.

My other gripe about this is that there's no indication on the clip in the bin that mediaFX has been applied to it.

Rob Mack

ushere wrote on 3/21/2009, 4:52 PM

hi rob,

agreed......

but in the clip bin the little 'effects' logo lights up if the clip has been fx'd. stays off if not. at least that's what it looks like to me?

leslie

Tim L wrote on 3/21/2009, 5:01 PM

but in the clip bin the little 'effects' logo lights up if the clip has been fx'd.

It would be nice if the media pool thumbnails had a little 'effects logo' right on them, so you could see at a glance which clips have an fx applied to them. Otherwise, you have to individually select the clip in the media pool to test whether or not it has an effect.

Applying fx to the media in the media pool is a fantastic feature -- but it could (easily?) be even nicer with some kind of indicator on the thumbnail itself. Occasionally users have accidentally dropped an fx onto a media file and can't figure out why its messed up on the timeline, where they see no fx have been applied.