Applying a Certain Effect to EVERYTHING

[Douggie]

How about nesting? Assuming you want to apply the same effect to everything in a sequence, try this: create a new sequence, then add the sequence where you've put the clips in, into the new sequence. Now you can apply an effect to that sequence to apply it to all clips.

If you get what I mean.

That is what I always do, it's also useful for ordering your clips - in some way.

[Kitsuner]

Export the entire video, import it back into your editing program, apply effect.

[Typhoon859]

Export the entire video, import it back into your editing program, apply effect.

That would mean a greater loss in quality considering I'd have to encode it twice. That's besides the fact that that isn't very efficient.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Export the entire video, import it back into your editing program, apply effect.

That would mean a greater loss in quality considering I'd have to encode it twice.

Not if you export uncompressed.

[Ashyukun]

Generally I think going the AviSynth route is the simplest, though the other methods would also work. You can simply make .avs files for all of the files that you're using in the project and then pull the bait-and-switch trick to get Premiere to use them instead of the original ones, and you don't lose any of the effects or work that was done in Premiere already.

[Typhoon859]

Generally I think going the AviSynth route is the simplest, though the other methods would also work. You can simply make .avs files for all of the files that you're using in the project and then pull the bait-and-switch trick to get Premiere to use them instead of the original ones, and you don't lose any of the effects or work that was done in Premiere already.

Oh, really? So if I import the avs file with the same name as the video file in which the source of the avs file is the actual video, Premiere will not see the difference? But hold on; do I import the avs file first and then clear the video file or what?

[Ashyukun]

Oh, really? So if I import the avs file with the same name as the video file in which the source of the avs file is the actual video, Premiere will not see the difference? But hold on; do I import the avs file first and then clear the video file or what?

What you do is create .avs files of all of the existing files your project uses- it's important to match them up 1:1, i.e. for every video file you make an avs file that opens that video file and applies whatever effect(s) you want. However, the name is largely irrelevant, but it's usually easier to call it the same thing as the video file except with the .avs extension so it's obvious what video file it matches up with.

What you then do is (making sure Premiere is shut down) to move all your original video files to a new folder- I usually create a folder wherever they started off and just drag and drop them in there, leaving the .avs scripts in the original folder. Now, start up Premiere and load up your project file. Premiere will go to load up the video files and go, "Hey! Wait a minute! I can't find these files....". It will then ask you to locate the files for it, usually opening up the directory the original files were in. Premiere will ask you for the files one-by-one and tell you which one it's looking for- here's where having named the avs script files the same as the video files is useful- you'll need to switch it so you can see 'all files' and not just whatever Premiere defaults to, and then select the appropriate avs script. Repeat for all the video files.

This is what we usually refer to as 'bait-and-switch', though with a slightly different approach to it than traditionally. The procedure originated a few years ago when it really wasn't practical from a processing power standpoint to directly edit the .avs scripts we use to load up and process DVD footage (inverse telecine takes up a fair bit of power, not to mention some of the fancy effects we occasionally have to use to improve the quality of footage). So, what we would do was to develop the scripts for the DVDs, and then use those scripts to make low-quality, small MJPEG-encoded (MJPEG is frame accurate but very fast) avi files for each script, and use those to edit with in Premiere. Once we'd finished editing and were ready for the final export (or needed to export footage to After Effects or for some other reason), we'd pull the 'bait-and-switch' to swap in the full-quality .avs scripts and then run the export.