How to make color correction follow one clip only through transition

Tom Wolsky: I agree with you. Usually I make an Adjustment Layer for the entire "scene" (clips shot at the same time, same lighting and colors etc.) to which I apply the same color corrections / LUTs. Sometimes though, I later realize that there are minor differences in lighting etc., so I "blade" the Adjustment layer into smaller clips to do minor corrections. From now on I will make the color corrections/LUTs directly in the video clip on the primary storyline when I am dealing with transitions.

Luis Sequeira1: Great! That's what I was looking for, thanks!

This approach works most of the time, maybe all the time, but is there an easier way?

Just so that everybody understands my problem:

The playhead (white line) is hovering over the transition in question. The adjustment layer above the compound clip "Buss_Kort" contains information about color correction which I want to apply to the compound clip "Buss_Kort". Between the black background/Custom solid ahead of it (where the red skimmer is hovering) and the "Buss_Kort" compound clip, I want a transition (in this case, the "Wipe" transition").

(Look at the pic. below)

As the wipe transition gradually introduces the "Buss_Kort" clip from the left (wiping/moving rightwards), I want the color correction in the Adjustment Layer to follow only the "Buss_Kort" clip being introduced from the left of the screen, and not apply color correction to the "Custom" solid before it (to the right of the screen in my edit). The reason for this is that I have a colorful title over the black solid screen, and I dont want to color correct that, at least not similar to the correction applied to the "Buss_Kort" clip.

If I put the "Adjustment Layer" file containing the color correction information inside the "Buss_Kort" compound clip, I would have to open the compound clip to make changes to the color correction. I guess this isn't really a problem when I think about it..

Q1: But is there an easier way, or a different way? Or is this the way it should be done, and the way people are doing it? How do you color correct video clips through an transition having the color correction not apply to the entire screen (containing both clips in the middle of the transition) but only apply to each own video clip?

Q2: A new question came to mind when trying to add the "Adjustment layer" above into an existing compound clip. Now it seems FCPX creates a compound clip inside a compound clip, and that I have to first open the first "layer" of the compound clip, and click it a second time to enter the previously created compound clip. How can I add the Adjustment Layer into the original compound clip?

How it looks now:

When I double click the "Buss_Kort" compound clip:

Here you can see that the compound clip contains my Adjustment Layer and the previously created compound clip (with the same name...) "Buss_Kort". When I click this compound clip:

The first compound clip is shown. How can I just add the "Adjustment Layer" to this compound clip so I dont have to have a compound clip with a compound clip inside?

Thanks Luis, I also cannot come up with other solutions. Maybe your second alternative is the best as I dont have to create the second compound clip (with the compound clip inside).

Do you know how I can "open up"/unwrap compound clips, in other words, how to put it back on the timeline? Like if you regret putting it there...

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but it sounds a lot faster to just do one color correction / LUT on the Adjustment Layer and "apply" / drag it over several clips, than to do the color correction / LUT on one clip and copy-paste to the other clips? Especially since I usually make several changes as I go along... But I am looking for other ways of doing it, I cant really understand that there isnt a better way of doing it? I've asked this before, but how do the professionals do it? If they want to quickly apply the same look/correction to several clips? Do they really copy-paste attributes to all the clips within a scene every time they make changes?

And the same goes for "sharpening" and similar adjustments that you want to apply to the entire project, or at least bigger parts of the project? I doubt people add "sharpening" to each individual clip?? But again, it is weird that the "adjustment layer" doesn't come included in FCPX if this is the easies/best way of doing it...

Tom Wolsky: Thank you for your input. It is very helpful and motivating to get the insight on how other people do it.