Color matching with multicam clips

I do have the right angle selected and I have done colour correction like this before. I can't understand what is different this time.

Here is a print screen:

Unfortunetaly it isn't showing my curser which is hovering on top of th red line on the lower clip which is the one who's colour I want to apply to the clip above.

It's so frustrating becuase as this thread suggests I am doing what I should be doing and it's not having it. grrr

Please help

I thought you were onto somthing then, but still not happening .

The print screen doesn't show my cursor which is hovering on the red line on the frame I want to match. Obviously I click like you would to colour match and nothing happens. Notice in the info panel the blue dot indicating match colour is selected has like a half tone to it, could that mean something?

I must be missing something really simple, here, what is it?

Can any of the gurus out there help with a related point? You've done a multicam edit and chosen your angles. You now review it and decide to change some of the angles. You also do a few through edits. You end up with a whole host of angles, some only a few frames long. If adjacent angles are from the same camera, the timeline does not 'heal' - they remain separate angles even though they are in fact a continuous clip from the same camera. Now you want to adjust the colour correction. You have numerous clips, lots of which need to be dealt with identically because they are adjacent. How do you do this - I can't find an easy way of matching colour over multiple clips, at this stage in the edit. Any ideas where I am going adrift?

they remain separate angles even though they are in fact a continuous clip from the same camera.

if you select the edit point between them, you can delete it.

Do you color correction in the angle editor. Use the match color function and the scopes to tweak the corrections.

I've got a similar problem.

I'm trying to colour correct one of the multicam clips in the angle editor.

When I click colour match and hover over the other clip part of this multi cam clip nothing happens and the 'apply match' button remains greyed out.

I can colour match the individual cuts back in normal time line but of course I don't want to waste time doing it to every single clip/cut.

Why won't it let me colour correct in angle editor?

The mouse icon turns into a mini monitor when I hover over the clip i want to match to.

Any ideas?

Hi Tom,

I've got a similar problem to the one you helped on this thread.

I'm trying to colour correct one of the multicam clips in the angle editor.

When I click colour match and hover over the other clip part of this multi cam clip nothing happens and the 'apply match' button remains greyed out.

I can colour match the individual cuts back in normal time line but of course I don't want to waste time doing it to every single clip/cut.

Why won't it let me colour correct in angle editor?

The mouse icon turns into a mini monitor when I hover over the clip i want to match to.

Any ideas?

Exactly Tom, that's exactly what should happen. The cursor does turn into a camera but when I click nothing happens.

Like if the Ilona clip was un accessible, I really can't get my head around it. :-(

It must be something really basic which I'm not seeing.

Thank you to anyone who attempts to help

FCP X - Beginner I guess,

Did you ever find a definitive answer to this?

I have recreated EXACTLY what you've described here. None of the "solution" posts address how to solve this.

I can do color matching perfectly in a fresh project timeline - no problems.

But can't do it in my multi-cam clip from the event browser.

My behavior is EXACTLY as you've described here.

I have lost about six hours playing around and searching other forums for this issue's solution.

Here is some more information Tom,

In the multi-cam clip -- I can now color match angle 1 to angle 2 - BUT angle 3 -- and all my clips are prores proxies all optimized and all analysed -- all shot with similar cameras.

Funny thing though is -- when I finally get angle 1 to match angle 2 (still nothing on 3) -- it just makes the original clip go to a dark black and white -- very NOT successfully matching it.

But if I try the exact same steps and use angle 3 as the one to match to -- NOTHING happens and the apply match stays greyed out.

Very strange behavior.

More information --- I can take a screen grab of the viewer - bring that still into my multi-cam clip and color match to it --- but not to the actual angle that still was grabbed from --- what the heck?

I may be able to solve my issue doing this though... so there's that!

Thanks, Tom. As usual enormously helpful.

Works for me. Make sure you have the right angle, the one you're color correcting, as the monitor angle.

The Daniel image on the right side is blank. Move the playhead to the frame you want to color correct so it appears on the right side.

The cursor should be a pointer with a camera attached. You click the frame you want to match to. Then the Apply button will light up.