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William Hohauser
September 17th, 2011, 03:54 PM
There's keyboard commands to apply color correction from previous, two edit prior, three edits prior. You can also Copy and Paste Effects although that copies everything if you have other effects. Also have you tried creating a Compound Clip of all the targeted clips and then pasting the Color Correction? Also creating a Secondary Storyline, selecting the Storyline "bar" above the clips and pasting the Color Correction? The latter allows you to paste to the entire "track."

Something that might help with the keyboard shortcuts:
Final Cut Pro X Keyboard Cover for Apple Ultra-Thin Keyboard (http://www.kbcovers.com/servlet/Detail?no=360)

Michael Wisniewski
September 17th, 2011, 09:54 PM
If there is a better way to do this, I'm all ears. This was a rush job and I was editing to the VO.It was interesting to hear about the workflow you came up with because we had the exact same problem and solved it differently. And I wanted to try your workflow next time just to see what happens. Part of the slow process of learning to "think" in FCP X.

Craig Seeman
September 17th, 2011, 11:08 PM
Something that might help with the keyboard shortcuts:
Final Cut Pro X Keyboard Cover for Apple Ultra-Thin Keyboard (http://www.kbcovers.com/servlet/Detail?no=360)

And Logickeyboard should be out with their's in a couple of weeks too.

The problem is that they keyboard shortcuts for copying the color corrections are not assigned. You have to know they exist and then go in to the Customize Commands and create the keyboard shortcut. In addition there's no buttons for it as there was in FCP7 nor is there a way to add buttons in FCPX.

It takes a lot of exploration of the Customize Commands to find out there's a lot of keyboard shortcuts that aren't assigned. One I just created is to nudge the color board pucks up, down, left right. They're hard to do detailed control with the mouse and no slider/small increment area. I assign the nudge as follows Shift 4 left, Shift 6 right, Shift 8 up, Shift 2 down. There's also a shortcut to go from puck to puck which can be useful if you have two pucks on top of each other as selecting with the mouse is difficult in that situation.

William Hohauser
September 18th, 2011, 08:24 AM
Thank you for that info. The color board adjustments were really annoying me with the lack of single increments.

Denny Kyser
September 20th, 2011, 01:48 PM
Have not read all the posts here, I am an Premier Pro 5.5 user.

I have been reading on the photography forums how easy this new software is to use, so sounds like Apple made it easy for people to switch, and if they have never used a video editing program, it seems to be quite simple.

Many claim they are making decent movies after a couple hours of playing and watching how to videos.

Probably not what the video community wants to hear, but just like photoshop, software making things easier is not always welcomed by everyone.

Also a 30 day trial will get many people to try it, (like me)