option to send clip from FCP to Color is grayed out

[Russell Lasson]

I believe you can only send timelines to Color from FCP. The other option is to just import the clip in directly from color.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Tom Wolsky]

What Russell said. Nest the clip. Send the nest.

All the best,

Tom

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[Walter Biscardi]

As others have noted, Send to Color is for timelines only.

In Color, you can simply import individual clips and render them for FCP.

Easier to just set up a simple timeline, drop whatever individual clips you want to grade into that, then Send that to Color.

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[Russell Lasson]

To expound a little bit more, one reason it’s easier to send a timeline to Color is because it will automatically set up your Color project according to the timeline. Plus you don’t have to try to navigate to a file using the Color interface. In my opinion, the weakest part of color is file navigation. It doesn’t even list items in a logical order.

-Russ

Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT

[Michael Garske]

Thank you all for your response.