Multi-Cam Color Correct

[Wang Leadpond]

I’d like to color-correct the two V1s first,then do the Multi-Cam editing.

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[Craig Burnett]

Yes, and I was asking how to go about doing that. It’s my understanding that I can’t apply a color correction effect unless the clip I’m correcting is in the master timeline…am I mistaken?

-Craig Burnett
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[Michael Hancock]

If you’re on a Symphony you can color correct the source clips, but if you’re using Media Composer or Xpress Pro you can’t.

I’d just throw one shot of each tape into the timeline, color correct them to match, then save the effects to my bin and label them by tape name. Edit, then make each source clip a different color according to tapes. Tape 01 may be red, 02 blue, 03 green. You’ll end up with a three colored timeline. Go into segment mode, select all the red ones, drag the Tape 01 color correction effect from you bin to the selected Tape 01 (red) clips and the effect will apply to all of them. Repeat with the other two and you’re done. Shouldn’t take too long.

Michael.

[Craig Burnett]

Michael,

Thanks very much…that sounds like a plan. Unhappily, I’m on MC, so I will have to do the extra steps you outlined…but that’s certainly an acceptable solution.

I was always more of a “meat and potatoes” editor on Avid, so I didn’t get into a lot of the data management-type of features…this provided a nice refresher course!

Thanks again for your reply.

-Craig

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[Craig Burnett]

Michael,

Quick question…once, say, all the Cam1 clips are yellow, is there an easy way to select the yellow clips all at once, without having to use the segment arrow to click on each of them?

-Craig Burnett
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[Jason Brown]

Did you ever get an answer about selecting certain colored clips?

I’m on MC as well…and just came up with the same issue today! I love Creative COW!

I can’t figure out how to change the color of a clip according to the tape name. How did you do it?

[Jason Brown]

Nevermind on changing color…figured it out. Used the help menu! Go figure…

I’m just going into segment mode selecting them and then double click the EFX clip and it ripples down.

[Michael Hancock]

I really can’t think of an easy way to select just one color of clips in a timeline–it’s just a matter of going into segment mode, holding shift, and clicking like crazy.

As far as setting clip colors by tape name–make sure you’re in Text view with your bin, and make sure you have Tape Name set to display as a heading. You can right click and go to “Headings” to select it if it isn’t already displayed. Then right click the Tape Name heading and choose Sort Ascending (or Descending, your choice). This will put all clips with TapeName01 together, then TapeName02, etc… Select all the TapeName01 clips, set a color, select the TapeName02 clips, set a color, repeat.

It’s really just a matter of sorting the clips in your bin by tape name so you can quickly select all clips with a common tape name together to assign them a color.

Michael.

[Craig Burnett]

Michael,

Thanks…I got all the clips to be the right color, but it was a giant PITA to go through and click each “orange” clip…many times, I got almost to the end of the sequence, would mis-click, and have to start all over again.

Once I got all the “orange” clips selected, of course I just double-clicked on the color effect and it rippled to all the selected clips.

Hard to believe there isn’t a way to say, “Select all the orange clips in this timeline.”

Oh well…thanks very much for your help.

CB

-Craig Burnett
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