Final Cut Pro - Reusing Effects

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Nothing is worse than having to recreate the same effect over and over. Actually, you don't...

Adam Lloyd Connell sent this tip in:

This is probably one that a lot of people know , but: In projects such as the one I'm working on now, with a repetitive transition effect, I am finding it so useful to drop the effect between clips (at the edit point), set its attributes, and then drag it off the sequence (FCP will keep it there) and copy it into a Bin in the Browser.

FCP retains the attributes of the effect in the Bin, ready for me to just drag it on the edit point of the next two clips. For example, in this project (multimedia education video) with lots of edge wipes from different angles, I have four edge wipes I have copied into the bin, each called, wide 90 degrees, 180 degrees. 270 degrees, and 360 degrees.

Larry adds: One of the problems I have when creating favorite effects is that all favorite effects are stored in the preference files, which means that they get lost when preferences get trashed.

Dragging an effect to the Browser (I create an Effects Bin to store them in) allows me to both save effects and quickly reuse them.