Copy Effect from one clip to another

[zaphodikus]

I'm setting a zoom to crop an entire clip which was shot by someone else, the feed is from 3 cameras with a fader in use, so I want to apply the zoom to only footage from one camera and another zoom to the other camera(s). Obviously I don't want it all zoomed so I'm trying to slice it up, and since this is a "lockdown" recording, will have a load of fun with audio, so not keen to make it painful. Should i just use keyframes for the whole hour long clip? I normally don't use the effect editors in a clip for long/entire clips, had far too many crashes and weird distortions in prior versions of VS. The effect editor has no undo so it's looking like you are not supposed to use it for longer clips/edits?
1. Are there hotkeys for the effect editors? inserting keyframes is slow going with a mouse?

2. Is it possible to copy the effect settings between clips/trimmed video in order to treat the specific camera the same each time the fader switches over to it? Or is using the zoom effect and editing the entire clip inside the linear editor how folk do these? I was thinking applying a custom motion to the clip pieces might be a way to do this, but not convinced that's going to not end up crashing often, VS2021.

[gewb]

I'm sure there are several ways to accomplish the task. To answer your uestion in #2 - yes, you can copy a clip attributes and paste them on another clip. Click on the desired (source) clip, right click then click on Copy Attributes. Next, click on the desired target clip, right click then click on Paste All Attributes.

I would tackle this project by turning off Ripple Editing, splitting out the audio track then cutting the video at each camera cut. Make the desired zoom for each camera at the first transition to each. Return to the edited camera1 and copy the attributes. Scroll thru the project and paste the attributes on each camera1 clip. Repeat for cameras 2 and 3.

You may need to play with transitions a bit and tweek timing depending on the source material you have to work with. (This is why you turn the Ripple Editing off so it doesn't screw up the audio.)

[zaphodikus]

Thanks, yes I did manage to use the copy-paste to copy the effect over, it just overwrites any effect you already have, so that did force me to think about how I did it more carefully.

I did initially use some ripple editing, but choose in the end to keep that to a minimum and just get all the camera swaps cleaned up a bit and perfect all my audio, and then render the whole clip out. And then import that into a new project and use the new project to fix the picture problems without touching the sound. It's a zoom recording with some backup footage from a dress rehearsal which I stole some audio from as fillers and for fixing places where zoom or the engineer got mic lines unhooked somehow.

Mainly I love that VS2021 is no longer limiting me to only 8 overlay tracks, that is super cool.