Auto Add fx (effect) track on all new projects

BadWolf

Member Joined: Sep 10, 2015 09:45 Messages: 126 Offline

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Oct 27, 2020 17:27

So with the new version there is no longer an FX track, you have to manually add one into the timeline. Not a huge deal, but is there a way to just have it included in all new projects I create? It's just one less thing for me to have to remember to do.


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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Oct 27, 2020 17:55

You can drop up to 7 FX directly onto each clip, so oftentimes there's no need for a dedicated FX track at all.

If you'd like to have one for all your projects anyway, the easiest way I can think of would be to create a new project and add the FX track. Save the project as something like Default or Project Template and use that as your basis for every new project, doing a Save As each time you start a new one.

AVPlayVideo

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Oct 28, 2020 08:53

Adding to what optodata showed
The advantage of placing the FX track, you do not need to divide the video when you want to apply only one part of the video.
If I'm going to apply the effect to the whole video, I don't need the FX track XEON-E5-2680 v4 / Mem. 16GB DDR4
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BadWolf

Member Joined: Sep 10, 2015 09:45 Messages: 126 Offline

Oct 28, 2020 09:56

Quote You can drop up to 7 FX directly onto each clip, so oftentimes there's no need for a dedicated FX track at all.

If you'd like to have one for all your projects anyway, the easiest way I can think of would be to create a new project and add the FX track. Save the project as something like Default or Project Template and use that as your basis for every new project, doing a Save As each time you start a new one.

Using the template method will work for me, thanks. I often want to apply an effect to just a portion of a clip, so the effects that allow me to do that, I need an fx track. I know a lot of effects can only be applie directly to the entire clip.