Carrying settings to other takes
Copy the settings you choose from one take, then paste them onto another take or sync them to a set. To carry a look alone, see Carrying a look to other takes.
The Copy, paste and sync card
The last card in the film simulations column, at the left of the edit page, is headed COPY, PASTE AND SYNC, with three controls:
- Copy settings… (
⇧⌘C) opens a list headed WHICH SETTINGS TO COPY. - Paste N settings (
⇧⌘V) puts them onto the take on screen. Until you copy something it reads Paste settings, is greyed, and says Nothing copied yet under it; after a copy the line under it names what is held, such as 5 settings from DSCF7601.RAF. - The line beginning Sync settings to puts them onto a set of frames, previewed first. It is greyed until you copy something.
Both shortcuts are also in the Edit menu, and are disabled anywhere but this page.
Choosing what to copy
That list holds seventeen families, in this order: Film simulation and look, White balance, Tone and colour, Tone curve, HSL and point colours, Black and white, Colour grading, Presence, Detail, Effects, Lens corrections, Perspective, Crop and geometry, Subject scope, Local adjustments, Spot clean, Lasso removals. Its header counts how many would change a pixel on this frame, 7 of 17 changed on this frame, each such row is marked CHANGED, and All and None are there for the two extremes.
When it opens, every family that changes a pixel on this frame is ticked, except four that are listed with their reason and left off: Crop and geometry (a crop is chosen for one frame), Local adjustments (masks are placed on this photograph), Spot clean (a spot is on this photograph) and Lasso removals (a removal is on this photograph). They belong to this photograph rather than to its interpretation, so carrying them costs a click.
A family that is at its default on this frame is listed but unticked. Tick it anyway and the paste clears that family on every take it lands on.
White balance is its own family so that the commonest wish, the same look with each frame's own white balance, is one tick: take Tone and colour and leave White balance off.
When the ticks are right, press Copy N settings at the foot of the list. That stores the copy: the list closes and a message says Settings copied, with how many and from which frame. A copy changes nothing on the take and is not a step of ⌘Z.
What a paste does
It replaces the copied families and only those; everything else on the target take stays exactly as it was. It is one write and one step of ⌘Z. Values are copied, not differences: pasting an exposure of +0.3 onto a take already at +0.3 leaves it at +0.3. Film simulation and look always travel together, since a look is a name over its simulation.
Masks, spot cleans and lasso removals are meant not to cross a change of frame shape: pasted from a landscape frame onto a portrait one, they stay behind and the rest lands. The card says so before you press, the message after.
Vixlo reads a frame's shape from the pixel size stored in its file, which is the sensor's shape before the camera's orientation is applied. A picture shot with the camera held upright is stored as landscape, so it counts as landscape although it shows as portrait. Paste or sync masks, spot cleans or lasso removals between a horizontal frame and an upright one, in either direction, and nothing is held back: the card, the message and the sync row say nothing, and the marks land on a different part of the picture from the one you placed them on. When the frames differ in orientation, untick Local adjustments, Spot clean and Lasso removals in the list before you copy.
Syncing to a set of frames
Press the Sync settings to line and a list opens, like the one Apply to N similar opens, with two scopes. All takes is every take on the page except the one on the canvas when you opened the list; if you copied from one take and moved to another first, the take you copied from is in it. Similar frames is the group at the slider's current setting, with the same evidence, holds and undecided frames included. Prune with the × on each row, then press Sync to N frames. Each frame is one write and one ⌘Z, and the message's Undo takes the whole sync back at once. A frame of a different shape gets everything except the placed families, and its row says which will not cross; the caution above says where that check falls short.
The clipboard
The copy is held only while Vixlo runs. It is not the Mac's clipboard, so ⇧⌘C leaves what you copied in another app alone. For an interpretation that lasts, save it as a look.