Redcine-X batch paste curve settings?

[JD Butler]

In a particular situation where I need to copy and paste a certain "gamma curve" and "look curve" to multiple clips in Redcine-X. Does anyone know a way to batch paste these settings rather than have to change them one by one?

 

[Michael Tiemann]

This is very easy to do...it is also very easy to screw up (because of a particular form of schizophrenia embodied by the RCX UI). The easy way to do what you want is to establish a Look that you want, limited to the parameters you want to apply. For example, if you only want to apply Gamma 2.6 to your clips, you can make a Gamma 2.6 look, then with that Look selected, right click the Edit button, select Look Setup, and cause the Look to only apply its parameters to the Gamma setting, and save that as the Look. Now you have a Look that affects only the Gamma parameter. So far so good.

Where it can bite you in the butt is when you Apply To: Bin (either all clips or selected clips) or Apply to: Timeline (either all clips or selected clips), your choice will apply, schizophrenically, only to the option you choose. If you apply to the Timeline, it won't, by default, affect any of the clips in your bin, and won't get saved out to your RMD files, which means you will think things are not working because nothing changed on Disk. If you apply to the Bin, then nothing happens to the Timeline, which means as you scroll through your clips, it will appear as if nothing happened, which will also confuse you. Why on earth RED decided to split these two aspects of an R3D media file I do not know. I reported it as a UI bug. You can apply both to clips in Bin and in Timeline, then you should get what you expect. But God help you if you are trying to work quickly, you forget one side or the other, and confuse yourself or your down-stream partners.

 

[David Battistella]

Put all the clips in a bin.

Select the first clip and make your adjustments

on a Mac use option key and 1 to store the look in position 1

select all the clips in the bin

select Apple key 1 to apply that look to all the selected clips in the bin.


The key is to put everything in a bin.


David.