Wish list for FCP 6.0 - color coded buttons

Color Coded buttons for clips in Timeline

Outside of the five colors that can assigned to sequences -- how & where can one assign colors to the various individual clips later made within a sequence on Time Line that Tom Wolsky in Feature Requests for next FCP 11-22-07 says is now part of the ability of FCP?
I don't see where that is done or any description in the Help files. This is a feature I've often needed. I think the person who previously asked --Jay Beeson #9 was asking the same thing I am. I surely need lots more than the five selectable sequence colors.

Bill Rabinovitch

Tom Wolsky Wrote:
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> "ability to Color coded- Buttons- placed above
> timeline- "
>
> You can do that now.
>
> "Ability to arrange clips better in browser---Drag
> and drop in order you want-
> Alpha numeric only suks"
>
> You can do that. Switch to icon view.
>
> "Ability to open Effects browser from right side
> of timeline-button-less scrowling"
>
> You can dock the Effects tab into the Timeline
> window. Personally I think the menus are much
> quicker and easier to use.
>
> "Have a button to lock all audio tracks -one click
> only- "
>
> Shift-F5

Unless I misunderstood the question was about adding color coding to buttons and had nothing to do with color coding clips.

02-21-07
Tom,
Think color coding clips limitations should be changed in FCP 6 so user can choose any desired color for any clip on the Timeline by using Apple's normal color palette -- & that the entire clip be able to be colored -- not just a tiny swatch at the start of the clip. Being locked into just five colors & primarily just for the overall sequences by this time seems ludicrous. Just how complicated could this be for Apple to implement anyway? This isn't rocket science & would be a big step forward for FCP.

In this way you could even study things from across the room & get both an overall & a specific sense of things. And one should be able to do Search's based on color.
As a project gets refined one just changes the color of the clips to reflect the current state of change. The current 5 color thing has to go!

I've asked about this for years on forums & even panels recognizing it would really help in organizing the more complex FCP projects that I & many others are dealing with -- organized by color aesthetics opposed to often inscrutable text descriptions.

Bill Rabinovitch