How to delete all effects on a timeline

dpvollmer wrote on 10/9/2009, 9:33 PM

I am putting together a demo showing the before and after results of some old super 8mm film. Using track motion I have put the track showing the film after cropping but without any color correction, noise reduction, or other effects in the upper left hand corner of the screen.

The other track is the same track but includes the added effects and is located in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The other two quadrants contain the text "Before" and "After".

In order for the video to be in sync I had to remove all of the effects from the "before" veg file while the "after" file contains the effects. I removed all of the effects manually but would have preferred to have done it automatically but couldn't find a way. There were many scenes within the 20 minutes of finished video from 7 reels of film.

Is there a way to do an automatic elimination of all of the effects except for cropping on a timeline? I have several more of these to do comprising a total of 39 reels of film.

Thank you for your help.
David

Comments

jetdv wrote on 10/10/2009, 3:47 PM

Scripts can easily do that. Both Excalibur and Ultimate S have this capability. You you can find a free script that does it here

JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/10/2009, 8:41 PM

There is a button above the Video Preview window called Split Screen View. It has a few options. If you select FX Bypassed and Select All it will bypass all FX in your project when pressed. This seems like the quickest way to accomplish what you want. Just render out a version with FX bypassed to use as the before track.

~jr

lynn1102 wrote on 10/11/2009, 7:30 AM

Lost the reply I was just typing. I made a similar demo a few months ago. A lady brought me a bunch of stuff including a video tape of film that her neighbor made for her with an old consumer camera. On a 21 inch crt, there was a 2 or 3 inch border around the picture along with all the fuzzy stuff. The blinking record lite was visible in the top corner and the color, brightness and focus were terrible. Customer wanted 5 copies on dvd. When I saw how bad it was, I called the customer and asked her to bring me any 3 or 4 reels of the film. I dumped the tape into the computer and when I did the film, I had to fish around to find the proper reels on the tape. I deleted all the extra and synced up the old and the new with corrections. Recorded as a split screen with and without the corrections. When she saw the difference, the brought all the original film for me to do. She has since given me several other jobs and sent several new customer my way.
I will difinitely try out the new script.

Lynn

dpvollmer wrote on 10/13/2009, 6:49 AM

Thanks, everyone, for your responses. Sorry to take so long to reply.

David