Sometimes when you're using
Final Cut Pro X
you want to add a filter
to a whole bunch of clips, so
for example you might have all these clips and you've done your edit
and you want to create some sort of different look, say a black and white look
or an aged film look
you want to drag a filter for example like aged film here
over onto a clip that you may want to apply that filter
especially after you've adjusted the parameters of the filter you may want to
apply it to all the clips
so that you get one sort of consistent look. Now
in FCPx you basically have to drag it to every single clip
so you can't easily apply one filter too many clips
you can't even sort of highlight all the clips and then drag
that filter across. It only basically applies to
whichever clip you drop it into, like so.
So an easy way to do this or
to achieve this, is to create what we call an adjustment layer
so we can apply a filter to one layer, that then applies
that filter to all the layers below it
and we're going to create an adjustment layer so that we can save it
later in FCPx and use it
for all our projects so we can quickly apply filters
to bunches of clips.
First open up Motion, and lets
create a 'new project' and this time it's
a Final Cut title.
Just open that, all we have to do
here, is delete the text
as you can see, now just
go to 'save as' and save that as
an 'adjustment layer'
and we'll put it in the category of
let's put it into a new category called
'adjustment' create that
and we'll publish it. Okay,
now that it's published just go back to Final Cut
and you will find it actually
under the titles, lets go to titles,
go to adjustment
there we have it, an adjustment layer. Now the adjustment layer
actually just is like a title it sits on top of
all these other layers and lets just drag it over here at the moment
it basically is nothing on top of these layers
it's basically going to work
as a holder for any filters that we put into it.
So let's go back to our filters,
sorry, here we go filters
and lets say we wanna drop the aged
film filter in there, let's drop it onto that layer
and there you go, you can see
it's being applied to all the layers below it
and so whatever you do to this
aged film filter
just let me change the green
to realistic green. Lets say we add something else, lets say
aged paper make a little bit more
obvious, there we go.
There we go,
now very obvious so we've got both aged film
and aged paper added to all the layers
below that adjustment layer. This a very handy way to
create one unified a consistent look across
all your clips and once you've created it
it's always going to be there so you can add it to any of your films or
projects as you like, of course you can copy and paste that
as well to add it to different parts of your sequence
There you go, I'll put the download link
in the notes in case you don't want to go through that simple process
and you just want to download it for free.