Thank you very much for the suggestion. I hadn’t thought of using the Shift Fields filter.

By the way, I think it’s great that you’ve come up with plugins that address problems in Final Cut Pro, rather than just plugins that create fancy effects. For example, the matte that allows different feathering on the vertical and horizontal edges is something that I’ve needed for a long time, since sometimes, you need to matte out something right up to the edge of the screen, but still need a feathered edge between the matte and the part of the image that still shows. Any chance of coming up with something that can change the Field Dominance of clips in the Timeline, as I described in my previous message?

Regards,

Robert

As your clips are in sequences, all you can do is use the Shift Fields filter. This will only work if you want to change from Upper to Lower or vice-versa. If you do, apply the filter to one clip, choose your setting (-1 or +1), copy the clip, select all the clips in the sequence, command-click the clip you copied to deselect it, choose Paste Attributes from the Edit menu and make sure ‘Filters’ are only selected. Then go to any other sequences and use Paste Attributes to apply the filter to all of them at once.

Using just a few keystrokes, is there a way to change the field dominance of all of the clips in the Timeline?

The only way that I know of, is to select all of them (in the Timeline), then right-click anyone of them and choose “Properties”, then change each one, one at a time, in the window that appears.

But I have hundreds of clips in some of my Sequences and I sometimes need to change the field dominance of all of them to the same setting. It can take a very long time to do this when having to change the dominance of each one individually.

If you know of a work-around, that would be great!

Thanks.

Robert

just a suggestion.

p.s. I think your plugins are great Alex

First thanks for getting back to me –

I have 3 video tracks – the base track or bottom track is a logo – track 2 is a montage and this is what I want to “swing” – track 3 is a host (me) addressing camera and welcoming viewers to my website –

When I apply the effect, I can only apply it at the beginning of the track – I see it – but I can figure out how to make it work. The entire video is about 1:20 – my concept is to have the montage play for about 8 seconds – swing open and continue playing – i want the effect to swing open and stay – while the third track engages – I did have some success with the regular “swing” but the bottom track is what swings not the montage – sorry to be so slow – editing is fairly new to me – I can send screen shots of my tracks if that would help…

best,

mark

How did you set and In and Out? Do you mean that you’ve set the duration of the transition? Is there enough footage for the transitions (i.e. are your handles long enough)?

Does the transition happen when you view the curve, and not when you view the output?

Thanks – I must be slow, because i can’t get the “swing” to work – I’ve place an in and out – selected swing in and..nothing (I change from curve to output to view) what am I doing wrong? Thank you!! And yes – I’m new to editing…

I’ve loaded your swing + curve transitions into fcp. I can see them, but how do I active them? I want a track to swing back to reveal another track under – i’ve set this up in fcp and can use the 3D effect,but yours looks much cooler in the demo. thanks for any help

mark in california

Cheers

Green highlights of mouse clicks is an optional function of the screen recording software I use – iShowU from shinywhitebox:

http://store.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html