How to turn off FX on all clips on a timeline ?

will-3 wrote on 4/2/2008, 3:50 AM

OK, we have a bunch of clips on the time line. Each has chromakey and maybe other effects applied to them individually.

Is there any way to turn off all effects for test render? Then turn them back on for the real render?

Thanks for any help.

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Chienworks wrote on 4/2/2008, 4:14 AM

Above the preview window is an icon that looks like a rectangle with a split circle inside it. Pull down the menu for it by clicking the triangle to the right of it. Choose Select All. This bypasses all video effects.

To reenable them, click on the button itself.

LJA wrote on 4/2/2008, 8:00 AM

The preview button which suppresses video FX affects preview only; it has no effect in rendering.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/2/2008, 9:23 AM

If your events are all on one track, just right-click the FX button and select Bypass All. then after the render, right-click again and select Enable All. If not, just do this for each track you want to disable the FX's for.

~jr

LJA wrote on 4/2/2008, 10:25 AM

This works only on track FX. To bypass event FX, Bypass All must be selected on each event.

I must confess, however, that I did not know about Bypass All until just now. Learn something new every day...

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/2/2008, 1:49 PM

> This works only on track FX.

Oops you are right. I don't know why I was thinking the FX were at the track level. My bad.

~jr

johnmeyer wrote on 4/2/2008, 1:49 PM

I note that Vegas 8 scripting enhancements include this line:

* The new Bypass property of Effect objects allow you to get or set

Thus, one of the scripting gurus could add the ability to store the collection of all fX objects, and remember which ones are enabled or disabled. Then, the script could disable them ALL. Later, it would let you re-enable all of those that were enabled at the time you disabled them all.

The script could simply disable and then re-enable all fX, but this would likely cause problems because sometimes users WANT to leave some fX disabled.