Effects "Favorites"

I am starting to get a fairly large number of plug ins for FCPX. I there a way to create a "favorites" folder so I can put the ones I use the most in one place and not have to go wandering for each one?

Gracias!

MP

You could attribute a theme "favorite" with MTT (Motion Template Installer from Andreas Kiel) so that all your effects appear in one place (theme browser) :
www.spherico.de/filmtools/MTT/index.html

Otherwise, you can create a subfolder "Favorites" for each subfolder in User/video/Motion Templates, then drag your templates in there.
But you'll have to let effects in effects, generators in generators... and so on.

I recommend the sub-folder method as outlined above. That's what I've done, grouping them into categories, usually by author with the guys from this site.

Also, the more familiar you become with them, you can call them up by a keyword at the bottom of the window. Don't be daunted by the overwhelming number of FX, the more tools you have the more versatile your work's potential.

Be aware that if you move or rename effects that you have used in previous projects, they will end up missing if you go back into the projects that use them.

kyletron2000 wrote: Be aware that if you move or rename effects that you have used in previous projects, they will end up missing if you go back into the projects that use them.

Yes indeed !

so as i understood, there is no easy way to just add a folder inside the effects, transitions section and add with a drag and drop the favorite effects ? like we did with PPro ?

Like we did in FCP from day one. Not at this time. But I'm sure it's coming. Lots and lots of things are coming. Every three months. For free.

thank you for confirming and save my time to not looking for it...
I hope this feature will come because it is so important.
crossing fingers

is there any news about this in newer version ?
I would like to have a FAVS folder with some effects-plugins in there...

I don't understand the problem. In the Finder I made a Favorites folder in the Effects folder. I option-drag copies of favorite effects into it. Works great. I could do the same in Transitions and Generators, but haven't found the need.

You just can't have one Favorites folder that covers all categories.

ddixon wrote: I don't understand the problem. In the Finder I made a Favorites folder in the Effects folder. I option-drag copies of favorite effects into it. Works great. I could do the same in Transitions and Generators, but haven't found the need.

You just can't have one Favorites folder that covers all categories.

From my point of view that is not a good idea especially when you work on several machines or exchange projects with others.

Dependent on the type of plug in (must be Motion Template) you can do a little hack on them which is way saver.

Open the template in text editor (TextWrangler recommend).
Find:
<factory id="16" uuid="fdc1944b229111d7b1c300039389b702">
<description>Channel</description>
<manufacturer>Apple</manufacturer>
<version>1</version>
</factory>


<template>
<theme>My Theme</theme>
</template>

"My Theme" is just a placeholder for a theme.
Replace the theme text with some thing of your choice like "Favorite Title", "Favorite Transition" etc.

In case you don't find the
<template>
go down the text till the last of the "</factory>" entries.

Then insert the
"

<template>
<theme>My Theme</theme>
</template>

"
and save.

This won't change the file path of the effect and will be compatible with any setup even if the setup on another machine's templates do not have the same themes.

Read the MTT manual its explained there a bit more in depth.

-Andreas