Color Correcting Sync’d Clips

[Mark Morache]

If you’re simply trying to synchronize an externally recorded audio track with corresponding video clip(s) shot from a single camera, then I would always use the Synchronize clips function.

For example, with the workflow I suggested, you can easily add an adjustment layer inside the synchronized clip that will affect all of your clips. You can’t do this inside a multi cam clip, since multi cam clips can’t have connected clips. Multicam is designed for synching multiple video and audio tracks and allowing you to very easily execute camera switching.

The Synchronized clip is basically a compound clip with all of your elements synched up.

Can you use the multi cam function to synchronize shots from a single camera and externally recorded audio? Absolutely, however Jeff’s original question regarded applying a single color correction across a whole set of clips, and I’d use the synchronize clips function, and add an adjustment clip inside the synched clip to do that. It works slick as snot!

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Mark Morache
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[Craig Alan]

Mark, how do you adjust color on a blank track? How do you monitor what effect this gives your images? Or are you seeing the layers below by setting opacity? Can you then set a different correction on a clip by clip basis? Fine tuning whatever you set globally?

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[Mark Morache]

Not actually a blank clip. It’s an adjustment layer. See a previous reply for a link you can download.

Basically it’s a text clip from motion, with no text. When you connect this over a series of other clips, and apply an effect to the connected adjustment clip, everything underneath has the effect applied.

It can be quite handy, although if you’re going to tweak each clip anyway, the blanket effect may be pointless.

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Mark Morache
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