Changing effect value on multiple clips

Hey!

Let's say I select 18 clips on my timeline and apply 'Sharpen' to them. Now in the Inspector it will say 'inspecting 18 items' and I can see the value for sharpen, which is 2.5 by default. Let's say I want to change this to 5 on all clips. If I change the value to 5, only ONE of the clips gets changed, which means I have to select all the others again and paste the effect.

Is there a way to change effect values on multiple clips directly?

I noticed that the above problem only occurs with some parameters. There are things one can change for multiple clips at once and others that will not be affected. It's a pain in the neck sometimes and I don't think this is a feature, it's more of a bug.

If it works with some parameters and not with others, it may relate to how the effect was constructed.

I notice when several clips on the timeline have the same effect but different values then simply highlighting them and changing numbers won't work. My work around is to change one clips's effect parameter. Copy and then select all those you want to change and paste attribute. You will see a dialogue box. Then check the effects you want to paste, hit enter and that's it

That doesn't always work as FCPX sometimes just adds the newly pasted effects on top of older ones. So if e.g. You have a blur set to 5 and then paste another one set to ten they might sum up. Not what you want in most cases.

When you have multiple clips selected in your timeline:

- any changes you make to the standard parameters in the Video tab (Scale, Position Rotation, Crop, Distort etc... except the Color Correction tool) will be applied to all the selected clips.

- any changes you make to Effects parameters in the Video tab will be applied only to the clip that sits under your playhead when you make the changes.

So if you want to apply an Effect with modified Effect parameters to multiple clips: FIRST add the Effect to one clip, modify the Effect parameters, copy the clip and THEN select the other clips and paste the Effect to the selection.

If you already have an Effect applied to multiple clips and you want to modify the Effect parameters: FIRST modify the parameters for one clip, copy the clip and THEN group-select the other clips, delete the original Effect from the selection in the Video tab and paste the modified Effect back to the selection.

This is how it works in FCPX, and for that matter also in Avid and Prpro.

Oops, I totally forgot to say I select multiple clips then delete the effects before pasting attribute

It's been a while I am using adjustment layer for global adjustment

Using an adjustment layer is a good workflow, but only if all the clips you want to apply an Effect to are placed one after the other on your timeline.

Thanks, Ronny, for enlightening me!

ronny courtens wrote: Using an adjustment layer is a good workflow, but only if all the clips you want to apply an Effect to are placed one after the other on your timeline.

I know. I make several adjustment layers in timeline for different scenes.

Dealing with 3 or 4 adjustment layers is still better than dealing with 100's of cuts on the timeline

Agreed!