Having a nightmare with effects. As one example, I have two title graphics that I've collapsed into one layer. And I want to apply an effect to that collapsed group. But not the background. Just that one collapsed layer. This is sometimes a color correction, a stabilization, or just a transition. But Avid always applies these effects to everything underneath. All layers.
This is off-the-charts counter-intuitive, and is literally not helpful to ANY editor on the planet. If I wanted to apply an effect to every layer, I would have made an adjustment layer. I have been fighting this blunder for 20 years now. And I still don't know a good way around this mess. The software, over my editing career, has gone through at least one, and probably several complete overhauls, and yet this abomination of poor design has been in every version of the software.
Here's my hope - can Avid please make this horrible, horrible blunder go away some time in the future? If you apply an effect to a layer, we ALL expect it will only apply to that one layer. Literally everyone. Except maybe the one guy that programmed this mistake 20 years ago.
Alternatively, if anyone has a good workaround (note that stepping in does not work for many effects, like a few mentioned above), then please let me know...
I'm having to do SOOOOO much of my editing in Adobe these days it's quite ridiculous.