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Copy and paste effects to other clips

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
July 3, 2011
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Well I've exported my sequence from Premiere and am slowly trying to work with the audio in Audition without pulling my hair out. The biggest problem I have is the lack of ability to copy effects applied to one clip and paste over other multiple clips. I figured if this was possible in Premiere it should e in Audition, but sadly it is not. The best I could do is save a preset...is that the only option? And can I apply a saved preset to multiple clips? Most of all I like to run normalize and reverb effects to several clips at a time, but geez not being able to do this makes me just want to do it all in premiere and only edit a clip in Audition one at a time if absolutely needed. Seems like Audition has some features it could really use before it is efficient for production work. In Protools I can use alt+shift drag to copy to other clips.

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Phillip Harvey

Community Expert

Just checking in from late 2017. Still can't copy / paste.

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RockstarBruski

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I don't know if this will help people but I was able to copy an audio EQ effect that I had set the way I wanted to other clips by:

1. Left click once on the video clip that contains the audio effect that I have applied to that audio track so that both the video and audio tracks are highlighted.

2. right clicking on the audio effect (such as EQ) under effect controls

3. left clicking copy

4. then going to the video clip I want to copy to and left click once on the video clip so it is highlighted

5. and then right click edit paste

More details can be found at this tutorial link https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/applying-removing-finding-organizing-effects.html

scroll down to about page two under the section copy and paste clip effects and you will see the details there of how to do the steps.

I hope this helps someone Cheers!

Bob Howes

Inspiring

Don't forget that this topic is more than four years old and Audition has evolved since then. The ability to save a rack full of effects as a preset and apply that to other tracks or clips is a nice feature nowadays.

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GuyLindsey

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Adobe, PLEASE!

Marcus Jonsson

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So, the years pass by and no solution in sight – sad. I was just faced with this issue and found this thread. In my quite massive Premiere project, I wanted to do some Noice reduction (shift+command (mac) + P) and arrange both channels to 50% and reduce the amp by -5. I have approx 70 clips in a row stacked in Premiere so this feature with copy paste effects would be much appreciated. Unfortunately Adobe does not seem to be there quite yet so..

MY work around on this was to create a similar shortcut to the noice reduction for the channel mixer right next to the P-key. This way I just go: ctrl + A > shift+command + P > shift+command (mac) + Å (I'm on a Swedish mac), and then type -5 in the HUD and finish by striking command + S. Now I've probably spent the time I saved writing this blog post..so there you go. A quick-fix until Adobe does the homework.

ryclark

Participating Frequently

Some of that could be done by setting Favorites in the effects and then apply them to multiple files using Batch Process.

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durdenlm

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Came across this thread and was frustrated to learn that, indeed their is no built in way to copy/paste an effects stack to multiple clips, but I discovered a method that is nearly as quick and painless, so I thought I'd share until Adobe fixes this ridiculous problem.

To the left in the 'Effects Rack' there is an option to save the effects stack as an Effects Preset. You can save the stack with some temporary name, select your other clip, scroll thru the pull down to your temporary name and choose it as a preset. BOOM, pasted. Then you can delete that temporary name if you life for tidiness the way your mother would want things.

Hope this helps in the meantime.

Loving the Adobe to Audition workflow, but there are definitely little things you bump against sometimes that just makes you go, "are you serious?"

ryclark

Participating Frequently

durdenlm wrote:

Loving the Adobe to Audition workflow, but there are definitely little things you bump against sometimes that just makes you go, "are you serious?"

But then on the other hand there are probably things in there that you didn't even know existed. When you find them it's "Bingo, why haven't I discovered this before?".

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karenCsprite

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Hi, I am fighting with the same thing the OP struggled with and I appreciate ANY ideas even when late posts. I read alot of forums trying to figure out the Adobe products for my needs. The point is that even if an OP hasn't been back on a forum doesn't mean someone else can't use helpful information. By the time I start searching the forums I am desperate for ANYTHING that might get me close!! My thanks to all posters with ideas!!

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mdotslash

Participant

What's the effect chain? Can you add the fx as a favorite and batch process them like I suggested

Stephen Barrante

Inspiring

Kind of amazed myself, that the only way to migrate one set of effects to another clip/sequence is to create a preset and then re-apply it. Not quite the standard Adobe workflow.

Adding it as a feature request here https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform. I recommend everyone else do the same and let's see if we can get this sorted out.

Thanks!

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mdotslash

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CS6 Audition has a batch process window, look under "Window" to select it. Select the clips you want to batch process and move them to the window.

You can run any effect/action that is saved under "favorites" across all the clips in the window

Under the "favorites" menu option, you can record your own custom action.

I wanted to do noise reduction and 30+ clips recorded in the same room, so I recorded a favorite that did noise reduction based on the room's noise sample. It worked a treat.

And please, @StevegG, don't tear me a new one if this isn't a perfect solution. I'm pretty sure nobody else has posted a response so far like mine.

907 Nomad

Participating Frequently

MdotSlash, your batch trick saved me a bunch of hassle. Can't believe the cut-and-paste function still doesn't exist a full 4years after the OP. I've always been a bit skeptical of the real effectiveness of filing "feature requests". Seems to me like a good way to divert the blame... easy enough to say things aren't getting done because we, the users, aren't doing our part.

That being said, I'm off to file another one for this feature right now. (I know... sucker.) Who knows, maybe after another 5 years it will actually get done. Though I still think it's going to take another 10 years before we get the option to feather and/or invert our garbage masks in Premiere.

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

We are talking about a copy/paste action here. Not some core function. And the action is actually already done in the rack preset, but just in a more broad way.

I have to say it baffles the mind that in order for me to copy an effect from a clip to another, I have to make a stack preset and delete it afterwards. So instead of one action there's three actions to do. :/

While I'm sure it does baffle you I suspect you would be far more baffled if you had to actually specify it, get it approved, program it and test it

While the action of copying and pasting may appear a simple concept and a simple user action someone actually has to write the underlying code that makes those actions appear so easy and seamless.

The effort and impact that has as well as the priority and cost is really not for any of us to determine, however, I will say it is probably a lot harder than Ctrl C and Ctrl V

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Imarkem2

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The easiest way is to open each effects processor (like eq) and SAVE the custom setting as a unique named PRESET. Then in any future tracks you may simply call up your custom named presets.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

And what exactly is the point of replying to a year-and-a-half old thread without even reading the first post in it?

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Imarkem2

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sorry I will refrain from the forurms... just was trying to be helpful.

Bob Howes

Inspiring

Depending on the effects you wish to use, another work round might be to assign all the clips you want to process with the same effect (a reverb for example) to a Bus then apply the effect to the Bus which will put the 'verb (or whatever) on all of them at the same time.

Not exactly what you're after, I know, but this way of working makes sense to anyone used to working with physical sound mixers rather than DAWs and NLEs.

Bob

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

Not sure if this helps but you don't have to save your clip fx as a preset - you can just select all the fx in the clip fx rack and select copy (or ctrl-C) and then select another clip's fx rack and select paste (or ctrl-v).

While this only works one clip at a time maybe when group clips comes in this might be a feature?

Richard CrookAuthor

Known Participant

I just tried that and it only just copies the clip itself and pastes it on top the other clip.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

I put an alternative solution to your problem to the developers some weeks ago, and they are apparently interested. But absolutely no promises are made at this point as to whether it's practical, obviously. And you won't get to see it until the next release, even if it is. But ultimately, if implemented it would do exactly what you want, with some interesting extra options in terms of what you could do with the effects...

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