Color correcting multiclip project.

How in the world do you color correct a multiclip project when you have multiple clips interwoven on the timeline? Is the answer as simple as correcting the source clip before beginning to multiclip edit?

Frank

Copy and Paste ATTRIBUTES....Filters. Apple-C will copy, and OPTION-V will paste Attributes, choose FILTERS. Then find every clip that is the same angle and do the same thing.


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Hmmm? That seems counter intuitive. Do you think it will always be like this?

COUNTER intuitive? How so? Normally you color correct clip by clip. Even on a DaVinci you have to look to the color correction applied to the older clip to apply it to the same one further down the line. Avid as well...and Color...

Count your blessings that you can copy/paste to save time.


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Which bit feels counter intuitive, Frank? Perhaps you're not getting the workflow that's being suggested. What would be a better way for you?

" Is the answer as simple as correcting the source clip before beginning to multiclip edit?"

actually you CAN work like this if you want.
you do it in the TIMELINE, of course.
you'd add your CC to the various angles in the multi clips,
then edit away.
IF you have enough grunt to carry all those clips with CC on them.
and often you don't get your "look" from just one simple instance of the 3-Way CC filter,


the way Shane suggests is very common, of course.
in FCP you do have the added advantage over a DaVinci that you can do a "Find All" and paste / drag a particular CC to every instance of that angle in one go.


nick

Let's say you could paste attributes by clip name. That would be an intuative operation.
Frank

> Let's say you could paste attributes by clip name. That would be an intuitive operation.

But you can. That's exactly what Nick said. Copy the clip with the desired colour-correction filters on. Then do a Find All in the timeline to locate all instances of a clip, OPTION-V. What's counter-intuitive about it?


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derekmok Wrote:
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> > Let's say you could paste attributes by clip
> name. That would be an intuitive operation.
>
> Thanks Nick and Derek - I will use the search function as you describe. While I'm PC stranded right now, I expect after clips are found then I can paste to just the those clips.

Frank

But you can. That's exactly what Nick said. Copy
> the clip with the desired colour-correction
> filters on. Then do a Find All in the timeline to
> locate all instances of a clip, OPTION-V. What's
> counter-intuitive about it?