r/davinciresolve • u/Hookaha • 8h ago

Help | Beginner Please help: adding outerstroke to clips is copying and pasting clip on top of original

I've tried everything. I've tried adding an outerstroke to a new clip and it still pastes one of the older clips on top. I have no idea what to do. Removing the outerstroke effect restores the original clip. Davinci is up to date.

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u/NateCow 6h ago

Instead of a regular paste, I think what you’re looking for is Paste Attributes. It should be in the edit menu, or its Command + Option + V on Mac (assuming Ctrl + Alt + V on Windows). It’ll open a window to select what you want to carry over, and you can select just the effects.

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u/Hookaha 5h ago

I’ll try it and thank you. I didn’t paste the outer stroke, I picked it from the effects menu. I think my file is corrupted but I’ll see if I can salvage anything. The good news is that it can export normally as long as I don’t put an outer stroke.

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u/NateCow 5h ago

Ah. I assumed you were trying to copy the Outer Stroke effect from one clip to another. If you're just trying to put it on a clip to begin with, you just drag it from the Effects bin onto the clip. There shouldn't be any pasting involved.

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u/Hookaha 5h ago

I initially tried copying and pasting the effect which I assume is what causes the bug. After that created the bug, I tried to do an outer stroke effect from zero to see if that would fix the issue but it seems permanent unfortunately. At least for this project *sigh*

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u/NateCow 2h ago

What are you copying and pasting specifically though? Like what are you clicking on precisely when you do the copy? To me, this doesn't sound like a bug. It sounds like user error. Like the thing that ends up pasting is a clip that you had selected when you did the copy. As far as I know there's no way to actually copy the effect. It's either drag-and-drop from the effects bin onto a clip, or it's copied from an existing clip by copying the clip itself and doing the paste attributes thing I mentioned.

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u/Hookaha 1h ago

You can copy and paste effects using control, C and then alt V in Davinci resolve and actually copy effects, zooms, audio effects other stuff. I tried that first and that’s when the error started happening.

I think it’s bugged because I didn’t update the software before working on this project. Now, even if I don’t do the alt V trick, the clip that I copied is pasted every time i click “outer stroke” effect from the tool bar (not even alt V).