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Use of "filler" to effect tracks below?Posted by RonD
Hi, all --
Here's something I've been wondering about, but haven't come up with a solution that works. On the Avid NLE [there, I said it :], a great tool is to be able to add an Effect to part of an empty track (i.e., "filler". Since there's no footage there per se, it affects the footage on the tracks below it instead. This is an extremely useful technique, as it allows for treating multiple clips in a entire section of the timeline en masse (and without having to nest all or part of a sequence, and the issues that can entail). I've tried doing this on a higher track using Slug, but this doesn't work of course, since the Slug is opaque, not transparent (the way Filler is). Does anyone have a method for employing a similar technique in FCP? (Or am I just going about this the wrong way?) Many thanks! Ron D.
Well it is a long way around, but you could create a reference movie of your timeline, then reimport that. Put it on the layer above your current stack. Now you can put your FX on that. It will act sort of like Avid filler. If you need to make a change to an underlying clip, disable the visability of just that reference movie. Then after the change re-export the movie. If you use the same name and location the new movie should replace the old on the upper layer. Then re-enable the clip and re-render.
-Vance
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