I would agree that the FCP 7 model of template application is superior to Avid's, no question. But still, the basic MC workflow of selecting groups of clips through lassoing and then double clicking an effect icon to apply to all should work easily for the first layer of effects processing. If it's not, something is wrong, and I'm not sure what that might be. In the short term, I might apply effects to empty layers above rather than dragging to each one, which sounds like hell on earth.
This is a very old idea, but could your MC State files be corrupted? I just checked, and this settings file still exists in 5.5.3, which is what I'm running at home.
There's one here: Applications/Avid Media Composer (or Symphony)/Settings/MC State
And another one here: Users/Shared/Avid Media Composer/Avid Users/Your Settings Folder/MC State
I believe they're responsible for remembering how you left the application last time you worked in it, timeline views, window configs, etc., and reproducing those states upon launch, but occasionally they become corrupted and basic functionality just disappears, as in your case. Back in the olden days, we would quit out, and trash both of these. The application would write them fresh on the next launch.
Forgive me if I'm mentioning something obvious, but perhaps it's worth a try.
Good luck!
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: tonybreuer <tonybreuer@mac.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Oct 7, 2012 4:56 pm
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Applying an effect to more than one clip in a timeline
Thanks Shirley. I can't get it to work. The copy effects approach in Final Cut
7 is much better. It's one of things in Final Cut that I liked better than
Avid.
Tony
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@...> wrote:
>
> This worked on Symphony last time I tried it (a few days ago), though I may be
working one dot release after yours. There is a certain amount of delay in my
own work situation, which is a rather extreme one, with lots of media being
addressed through ISIS networked drives. I've learned to wait a few seconds for
the beach ball to show up, and then sit tight while all the effects icons show
up in the timeline.
>
>
> The one thing I haven't figured out how to do is apply a stack of nested
effects to a bunch of clips in one operation, i.e, pan and scan them all, then
color correct them all, etc. I believe FCP is actually superior in this respect.
If you can spare the track space, you might want to try dicing out some empty
track space with add edits, then apply effects in the correct processing order
to the empty tracks above the media tracks.
>
>
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