Replace Clip with Effect

Is there a way to replace video in a clip with an effect on it without losing the effect or having to re-apply it?

You sure can!

Load your clip with the replacement video into the Viewer. Set your in point in the Viewer.

Now, go back to the clip in the Browser and select it, and copy it by hitting apple-c. You've now copied the clip into the clipboard.

Select the clip to be replaced in the Timeline and right-click on it (or control-click if you are of the one-button mouse persuasion). Select Paste Attributes from the pop-up menu that appears. Tick the box for Content (If you need the audio, be sure to tick the Content box in the Audio column, too)

The new video should pop into the Timeline clip, leaving the filters intact.

debe

That "Paste Attributes" dialogue box is an awesomely powerful tool that most people don't even know exists.

When life gives you dilemmas...make dilemmanade.

> That "Paste Attributes" dialogue box is an awesomely powerful tool that most people don't even
> know exists.

Tell me about it...back in 2004 I was about eight episodes in a multi-camera show until I realized I didn't have to adjust motion attributes on all five angles by hand.

In your situation above, though, I'd recommended adding an extra step for safety: Cut the new clip into the timeline first. Use Copy/Paste Attributes (tick Video - Filters) to migrate the effects onto the new clip, then check them before replacing the old clip. Paste Attributes - Content is a very useful tool, but it can also have strange results. If you do use it, make sure you check that it's behaved normally and be ready to Undo if it hasn't.


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Along those same lines, I think I'd been using Final Cut for about four years before I learned about the "Normalize" feature.

I still periodically remember that morning, then stop and punch myself in the forehead muttering "Stupid, stupid, stupid."

Thanks for the advice. I'd like to add a new wrinkle to the scenario. Suppose I need to replace the video as a replace edit that does not have a mark in but rather a specific sync point somewhere in the clip?

Select the original clip
Copy the Clip
Do your Replace Edit
Select new clip
Paste Attributes
Done

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