Introducing Quick Apply — Now in Public Beta

LOVE THIS. I’ve been using the free FX Console (and, more recently, the paid Quick Menu since it doesn’t conflict with the Properties Panel) for this. Having it native is going to be great.

Thoughts: 

• It’s nice that I can pick where it pops up. At first, I thought I’d want it to be where the mouse is, but I’m so used to Quick Menu in the middle of the screen at this point that I’m just going to go with the default.
• ECSTATIC that I can apply it to a new solid or a new adjustment layer. That is going to be one of those little time savers that adds up so much throughout a day’s work.
• Not sure what I think about the text at the bottom switching between “apply to new layer” and “apply to new solid” depending on whether it’s a type animation preset or an effect. It makes the text at the bottom jump in a distracting way. Not a huge deal, but maybe just “layer” with no need to differentiate.
• Very surprised to stumble across the “Import Recent Footage” being in there as an option when it pulled up some sound clips by their file name as I was typing for something else. Puts me in mind of a feature request to have frequently imported things be a menu instead of (or in addition to) recent. I’ve got some assets I use a lot and it’d be awesome if there were a menu for those for when they slip off of the “recent” area.

Ideas:

• I absolutely want to favorite things so that effects I use most (Fractal Noise, Tint, Magic Bullet Looks, etc.) come up first.
• I will definitely be changing the keyboard shortcut.
  When I’m working fast (which this tool helps with), I don’t want to be using two hands for it. One hand will be hitting the keyboard shortcut (I’ll be using ctrl+space) as my other hand moves from the mouse to the keyboard ready to type in the name of whatever effect/preset/menu item I’m after.
• I’d like it to recognize spaces like Quick Menu does. That is, if I type ma bu, I expect Magic Bullet Looks and the Magic Bullet Colorista extension to be top results, but Looks doesn’t show up anywhere near the top - even if I type ma bu lo and Fractal Noise is four items down with frac noi 

  

   

Finally! 👏🏻 some feedback:

🔹 In the search box, the text should be vertically centered and maintain the same proportion as the rest of the search box in the interface.

🔹 The wrench icon should be changed to a gear icon, respecting the Spectrum design (and the dropdown menu arrow like in Photoshop). It should also be located on the right.

🔹Since these menus include buttons, perhaps they should have more padding.

Looks like a great addition. Looking forward to testing it out.

• It will be good to be able to apply FFX with keyframes at CTI or layer inpoint - the wrench is a good spot to place.

•         if input is persistent across use-case and sessions then add a Note Pad to copy paste often-used searches
  
  allow user to comment out previous input(s) for easy re-use via copy-paste - use single-line JS-Expression special character to assign beginning of commented input //
  
  add support for FFX subfolders
  
  perhaps language-agnostic Special Commands instead of p,m,e - perhaps ffx,fx,comm (with support for aliases - com,command,menu). Allow for e16, e32 as inputs to search for only defined effects within specified bitrate or add these as checkbox options in the wrench dialog OR allow for both with the input being an override of the wrench setting.
  
  and that ffx icon can easily mislead new users since it’s only got fx - users may think it’s an effect instead of an Animation Effect which is a lot different - spell out the “ffx” fully instead of “fx”. 
  
  Might also be a good time to think about FFX 2.0 which is essentially a type of headless/noUI script since more users are writing scripts and also support launching js/jsx from the Quick Apply UI