Color Correction & Multiclip Editing

[Shane Ross]

Well, if it is a basic two camera thing, and the lighting never changes on the cameras, it might be advantageous to CC first. But how you do that, THEN multiclip is beyond me. What I’d do is edit, then collapse the multiclip when you are locked. Color correct the first two angles, then paste the color correction to all the rest of the shots. Like ANGLE A. Color Correct, Copy the clip, then do a FIND ALL in the timeline for that angle, and then paste the CC onto all the shots that appear. Do the same for Angle B

Shane

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[Don Greening]

Yep, Shane’s way is the way I do it and it works great. Especially the workflow for CC and pasting the attributes onto the other same camera clips. When it’s time to render make sure you’ve collapsed all multicilps first, otherwise the render times take longer.

Shane’s way is also more……..sportsmanlike 🙂

– Don

[Alan Okey]

There’s an even faster way:

1. Open the source angle clip in the viewer
2. Add CC filter
3. Adjust CC to taste
4. Drag CC filter from viewer tab to browser
5. Drag CC filter from browser onto first instance of respective multiclip angle in timeline and HOLD over clip without releasing mouse button. An overlay will pop up with two options.

From the FCP User Manual:

To apply a video or audio filter to the active multiclip angle in the Timeline:

1 Drag a video or audio filter from the Effects tab of the Browser to the multiclip in the Timeline.

An overlay appears with two options.

2 While continuing to hold down the mouse button, do one of the following:

– To permanently apply the filter to the active angle: Place the pointer over the Apply to Source Angle overlay. This permanently applies the filter to the active angle, even if you switch or cut to another angle.

– To apply the filter to the currently active angle: Place the pointer over the Apply to Multiclip overlay. This option applies a filter to the active angle, but the filter is not retained unless you use the Switch with Effects commands when switching to other angles.

[David Stembridge]

I do wish there was a means of applying the filter so that after changing angles… it would retain the color correction. Working on a 55 minute performance sequence, and I have to go in and drop the filter on every newly created angle clip. Wish there was an easier way!

[James Galea]

Cheers mate, really appreciate this. Helped me out heaps and saved me a bunch of time

[Gordon Burns]

I do Multi cam grades after the fact…

Just do the multi-cam edit then go to the first instance of each angle. Grade it till your happy. Drag that grade to a Bin. Use the find command to FIND ALL instances of that angle in the timeline and drag the grade back from the bin to the highlighted clips.

Done.

Gordon

[Matt Shaw]

Thank you Gordon.

You have just saved me at least 2 days of my life which I can now spend with my wife and family.

Faced with 46 x 4-camera multi edits averaging 8 mins each that would have been a lot of fiddle time dropping the same CC filter onto each individual shot! Thank goodness we took the time to properly name all of the original XDCam files in the camera.

There’s always a solution…..