can't apply filter globally

While able to apply a "de-interlace filter" to the upper (default) field of an entire video track, is there a way to change the default to the lower field, so I don't have to go clip by clip? Changing this setting in FILTERS for one clip does not change it for all, even when I select the entire track.

if its the ONLY filter on your clips,
then you can select all,
right click on any clip,
remove attributes > filters,

then apply a modified de-interlace filter to all clips at once:
open the de-interlace filter, change it,
drag to all selected clips in timeline.

but if you have bits & pieces of filters across your clips,
then it's one-by-one, i'm afraid.

for a global effect like de-interlace, i'd think about nesting your sequence,
and applying the filter to that nest.



nick

Couldn't you make a copy of it and add to favorites and then double-click the filter and set it to lower field. Then apply it across the range of clips.

Yes you can, but removing it later may be a pain.



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What FCP needs is what 3d Studio Max has with its parametric modifiers; which in this
case would be equivalent to a filter.

Let's say you create a cube (let's say for analogy sake that a cube=a clip in FCP)
and then you apply a modifier (say bend) and then you create another cube.
You can copy the modifier from CubeA to CubeB as either a copy or an instance.

If it is an instance, then if you change the modifier on Cube A you also change the modifier
on CubeB.

Therefore, FCP needs to have a choice of both copied (non-unique filters that apply to
only one clip) and instanced filters; so that if you change the filter on a clip you change
any other instance of this filter.

Hope this makes sense...




Nick Meyers Wrote:
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> if its the ONLY filter on your clips,
> then you can select all,
> right click on any clip,
> remove attributes > filters,
>
> then apply a modified de-interlace filter to all
> clips at once:
> open the de-interlace filter, change it,
> drag to all selected clips in timeline.
>
> but if you have bits & pieces of filters across
> your clips,
> then it's one-by-one, i'm afraid.
>
> for a global effect like de-interlace, i'd think
> about nesting your sequence,
> and applying the filter to that nest.
>
>
>
> nick

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While able to apply a "de-interlace filter" to the upper (default) field of an entire video track, is there a way to change the default to the lower field, so I don't have to go clip by clip? Changing this setting in FILTERS for one clip does not change it for all, even when I select the entire track.

Take a look at XML, even without a knowledge about XML you can easily figure out in a text editor what the settings are for "upper" and "lower". Then just do a simple find/replace.

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