Why don't saved EQ Presets update globally when changed?

I've created a saved EQ Preset in FCP and applied that to all my video clips. I made an adjustment to the EQ settings and re-saved the preset using the exact same preset name/file. However, I noticed that all the clips that use this EQ preset don't automatically update to use the new settings and show the former settings. So I basically have to re-apply the updated preset to every clip again.



Is there any way to make the presets work globally so if I change something it'll be automatically applied to all the clips using that preset?

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Posted on Jul 1, 2024 4:09 PM

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Posted on Jul 1, 2024 8:13 PM

Nope, they don't work like that. Once you apply a customer saved preset to a clip, it's independent of any other instance anywhere. This is where an actual professional audio mixer would come in handy. It would have a bus (or a few) that you could route all those clips to so they could be changed at once. The only option is to put them all in a Compound Clip and apply the custom preset to that.

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Jul 1, 2024 8:13 PM in response to Tom H.

Nope, they don't work like that. Once you apply a customer saved preset to a clip, it's independent of any other instance anywhere. This is where an actual professional audio mixer would come in handy. It would have a bus (or a few) that you could route all those clips to so they could be changed at once. The only option is to put them all in a Compound Clip and apply the custom preset to that.

Jul 3, 2024 7:33 AM in response to Meg The Dog

Okay, but, audio roles aren't really helping me make global changes to audio because there's no way to quickly select all the audio of a particular role so I can remove and then re-add an EQ setting to all of them. What complicates things is that I'm using synchronized clips and compound clips in my timeline, so, the audio is in various places.


Making things more complicated is that there are two audio tracks for synchronized clips when you double-click on them. The audio track that came with the video is tagged as Dialogue-1, but the separate audio track (the one I actually want to hear) is tagged as some weird <Blank>-2 & <Blank>-1 role. If I view them in audio lanes, I can multi-select all those Blank roles, but, there's no way to change them all to a different role. I have to instead go into each synchronized clip and change each one individually. Is there really no way to do this in bulk in FCP?



I have to do the same for compound clips, which also contain synchronized clips. So that means I have to dig 2 levels deep for the over 100 video clips in my timeline to change audio roles. There's got to be an easier way. Also, why does the audio for compound clips appear in a more generic Dialogue lane instead of Dialogue-1? I'm so confused.

Jul 3, 2024 7:46 AM in response to Tom H.

I also don't understand why the audio for two different clips is in different audio lanes when the audio is tagged in exactly the same way in both clips.



There are two clips in the above screen cap side-by-side. Both are synchronized clips, and the audio for both is tagged in the exact same way: audio that came with the video uses the Dialogue-1 role, separate audio uses the Imported Dialog role. Why does the audio for the left clip appear in the Imported Dialog lane, but the audio for the clip on the right appear in the Dialogue-1 lane when they are both set up the exact same way with audio roles?

Jul 3, 2024 8:42 AM in response to Tom H.

I may be misunderstanding you, but:


1) There is a way to select all the clips with the same role - either using lanes, or by opening the Timeline Index and selecting the appropriate role(s).


2) If making a synchronized clip causes roles to be misassigned, that is unfortunate, but it should be fixed upstream, by opening the clip and fixing it. If the clip is already in use, you can reveal in browser, fix, then drag over the timeline clip and Replace.

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