Track vs. Clip plugins

Former user wrote on 10/6/2018, 11:15 AM

I have a large feature project with already pre-rendered scene clips, and a few regularly applied plugins - Hit film Vibrance, color saturation adjust and vignette/diffusion. One of these is applied to all clips, the others only to a few. I had a desire to keep the clips free of any individual plugins for simplicity, and put them onto separate tracks which have the plugin(s) applied to the entire track.

I am wondering does this create an unnecessary drag on the resources, or does the fact that most of the time a plugin is being applied to empty space on a track make it the equivalent of having individual clip plugins. In other words does it matter one way or the other? I am trying to formulate a way to efficiently finish this large project and keep it simple and immediately adjustable.

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Kinvermark wrote on 10/6/2018, 11:59 AM

As a practical matter, no. You don't tend to spend a lot of time scrubbing through black areas of your timeline.

There are some other considerations however. First, is that often the clips really aren't as similar as you may think, so doing colour correction (for example) on one doesn't really work for the others. Maybe this is a compromise you can live with. Also, it is possible for track based effects to change the appearance of black in some rare cases. Just be aware of that.

Former user wrote on 10/6/2018, 9:34 PM

Thanks. These are all pre-rendered scenes with lots of work done on individual shots for color correction, contrast, etc. I decided I am just going to do plugins on tracks to simplify the overall process for the project file.