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How to "toggle" LUTs + Color Adjustment from "ALL clips" on a timeline at once
mikey142 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Dec 17, 2018 19:34 Messages: 8 Offline
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How to "toggle" LUTs + Color Adjustment from "ALL clips" on a timeline at once, without having to individually go through menus for each single clip.

Is there an easier quicker way to do this?

For example, there are 100 clips on a timeline, where 30 of them have "enhanced stabilizer", 60 of them have color corrections and all 100 of them have same LUT applied.

Now I need to create 2 output files -

1. Without any of the adjustments, just the cuts, speeds etc for having a project file that is easier to work with for previews etc and to make further adjustments.[/list]

2. With all the adjustments, the final product.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Dec 26. 2018 17:05

optodata
Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline
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That's tricky, and removing the effects is easier than reapplying them.

If the only thing on your timeline is these 100 clips, you can type Ctrl+A and select all of the clips, then click on Fix / Enhance, uncheck VS, CA and CP & CLUTs, and you've got your clean clips back. If you have titles, audio clips, or anything else that doesn't have the ability to be stabilized or have a CLUT added, you'll need to manually select the video clips either one-by-one or in groups by dragging a selection rectangle around them because PD will only show the tools that are available for every selected clip.

Reapplying the changes is much more work.

The good news is that each clip will remember its Color Adjustment and Video Stabilizer settings when the effect is unchecked; the bad news is the only way to re-enable the effect with the previous settings intact is to do that to each clip individually. If a group of clips is selected and the CA or VS settings are different on any of them, they will all be set to the saved values of the clip that the scrubber is on.

If all 30 or 60 clips have the same settings anyway, this won't be an issue and you'll be able to reapply these changes as a group. In fact you could also do a single right-click and choose Copy Keyframe Attributes and then a group select, Paste Keyframe Attributes and take care of both settings at once.

The CLUTs are different. Once the CLUT is disabled, the setting is cleared and you have to (re)select a CLUT after the box has been checked. The good news here is that you can select all 100 clips, check the CP & CLUTs box, click on the desired CLUT and you're done.

To be honest, it sounds like the easiest approach here would be to do your two proposed steps in the opposite order: essentially wait until you're done with all the other edits and then apply VS, CA, etc. at the end to finalize it. Is that a possibility?

If your goal is simply to have PD be able to work with the clips in real time - but all the clip adjustments you've made slows it down too much - you could use Range Produce to "lock in" the fixes so PD won't have to add each adjustment to every frame during the rest of your editing.

The ideal situation might even be to apply those changes to the original clips that you've cut the 100 clips from, so right from the start you'd be working with clips that are going to meet your visual standards. I don't know how much (extra) work that might be, but thinking about the problem in a different way can often lead to a more efficient solution.

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