I’ve got a tip that I’ve been using which I love.  Not sure if other people are using it or if it’s a “Come on….everyone knows this…” but I just figured it out (yesterday) and I love it.

If you are color correcting your footage in Final Cut Pro on your timeline, say you have 30 clips in a row and want to move through all of them quickly, do the following:

1. Change your sync to “open” in the canvas or viewer.
2. Move to your first clip in the timeline (anywhere in the clip).
3. Apply your 3-way color corrector to the first clip and open the filter (visual color corrector) tab in the viewer.
4. Make your adjustments.
   
5. Now click on the “1->” or “2->” to place that color corrector to the next clip (1->) or to skip one clip and place it on the following one (2->).  You can also place it on the previous clip (<-1) or the one before the previous clip (<-2)
6. Doing so will copy the same Color Corrector 3 Way into the next (or previous) clip.  Then just move your timeline indicator to the next clip and your filter will automatically open up in the viewer (with the visual tab opened already).  Make your slight adjustments to that clip and repeat #5.

Hope this helps.  I got through a 15 minute video (over 40 clips) rather quickly doing it this way.  No dragging and dropping, no double clicking your clips, no saving to favorites and then dropping from effects to clip.  Very easy to use.

Cheers!
- Marcelo Lewin
The Digital Media Dude
http://www.thedigitalmediadude.com/