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How to Apply One Effect to Your Entire Movie at Once
Earlier, we looked at how to apply an effect to one individual video clip, like picking one
clip and making it black and white, but what if you want your entire movie to be in black
andwhite?Doyouhavetoapplyablack-and-whiteeffecttoeveryclip,onebyone?Thank-
fully,no.It'seasier to dothan you'dthink, and it'snot just forblack and white, either—you
can use this trick with any adjustment layer, so think Color Filters, Curves, Gradients, Hue/
Saturation, Color Balance, or even a Solid Color adjustment layer (but I would change the
blend mode to Soft Light and maybe lower the opacity a bit on that one).
Step One:
Start by going to the Layers panel, scroll down to the bottom of the layer stack, and click
on the first clip in your movie (Clip 01, here). Then, click on the Create New Adjustment
layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose
Black & White
from the pop-up
menu. This makes just that one clip black and white (as seen on the left). But, here's how
to apply it to multiple clips (or your entire movie): in the Layers panel, click-and-drag that
Black & White adjustment layer up and out of the Video Group, so it's all by itself above
the group (as seen here at right).
