"Paste & Replace" shortcut to replace effects in Effect Controls window

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
February 24, 2023
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When copy/pasting a Lumetri effect (or crop effect, etc) to one or more clips that already have that same effect applied, I often want to replace the existing effect in the clip(s) rather than add a second copy of it.

Giving users a new "Paste & Replace" shortcut such as Ctrl+Shift+V so that they can decide on-the-fly if they want to add an effect or replace any existing copies of that same effect would be extremely handy!

If the "Paste & Replace" shortcut is used on a clip that doesn't already have a copy of the effect being pasted, it would simply work as a regular paste (Ctrl+V). If a clip already contains several instances of an effect, then using "Paste & Replace" would remove all previous instances. If the user wants to always replace existing effects by default, they could simply change the "Paste & Replace" shortcut from Ctrl+Shift+V to Ctrl+V. This would put full control in the hands of the users!

Please consider adding this simple little shortcut that would be a big time saver!

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AndyAndyAndy

Participating Frequently

The lack of this single feature is the thing most likely to finally push me over to Resolve. I'm impressed by how much Adobe have improved colour management over the past couple of years. Please now fix the UI so that grading isn't torture. I'd love to be able to copy different grades to different keyboard shortcuts and easily compare grades (again, with the keyboard) but honestly, 'replace grade' and undo would get me 50% of the way there.

donm71675746

Participant

When will this happen - it would save so much time and my poor hands from doing extra ctrl-shift-x nonsense.

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Pierre Louis B.Author

Known Participant

IMPORTANT NOTE:

With copy/replace, it would be so much easier for users to compare back and forth between a clip's original Lumetri effect vs the newly pasted effect, using Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Shift-Z!

With the current copy/paste, users CAN'T easily compare between two Lumetri settings, since the comparison ends up between 3 settings: Original Lumetri, Original Lumetri+New Lumetri, New Lumetri (after the original Lumetri effect(s) is/are deleted). This makes a direct comparison between the original and new Lumetri settings impossible (outside of 1. duplacating the clip, 2. applying the new Lumetri effect on the duplicated clip, 3. deleting the old Lumetri effect(s) from the duplicated clip, and then 4. comparing between the two clips by toggling the eyeball icon (Toggle Track Output button) or Enable setting on/off. That's 4 steps instead of 1! Far too tedious.

Come on Adobe, lets get this extremely important feature added already!!!

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MoimoKlans

Participant

@AndyAndyAndyCompletely overlooked that, I came here via via. Don't know if this is for PPro as well as I don't use PPro intensively, apologies!

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AndyAndyAndy

Participating Frequently

This is the Premiere Pro forum. A plugin that did this for PPro would be very welcome!

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MoimoKlans

Participant

Maybe I'm two years late, but there's a plugin that can do this for you. Literally called paste to replace in the Adobe Exchange. It uses another shortcut than Ctrl Shift V but I changed this setting in Illustrator's shortcut keys settings panel.