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Hello,
I am working with a project that is Davinci color managed with the wide gamut color space.

I have some shots that I put into a compound clip.

I am finding that the compound clips do not seem to be color managed?
Rippling a grade from the same footage (not in a compound clip) does not carry the grade over properly. It seems like an input color space mismatch. But, trying to select an input color space on the compound clip, nothing happens and no input color spaces have checkmarks.

There seems to be some peculiar behavior with these compound clips and color management.
The same thing seems to happen when using a sub sequence.

Can anyone else advise on what I may be experiencing?
Is it a limitation of compound clips? A bug?
Is there a better workflow for this?

I understand I could try decomposing the clip, grading the shot, and then creating a new compound clip again. The main issue I have is that I applied positioning keyframes to the compound clip.
When I decompose, I lose all the keyframing work from the compound clip, and because the clips inside have a different starting scale and position value than the compound clip's default scaling of 1 and positioning of 0, nothing transfers over correctly when pasting attributes from the compound clip back to the source clip.

Using Resolve Studio 17.1

Thanks in advance for your input!
- Daniel

Instead of decomposing the compound clip, drill into it by right-clicking and selecting "open in timeline." The compound clip is just a container, and so you won't be able to give it an input color space, but you should be able to assign input color spaces to the clips within. Also, drilling into it preserves the keyframes you've built outside of it. To jump back out, double-click on the timeline name in the "breadcrumb trail" text at the bottom left side of the screen.

I'm not sure that there *isn't* something wrong with compound clips and dyrgb managed, but let's start with this. If this doesn't help, maybe turn off all forms of caching and optimized media to make sure Resolve's working with the original footage, and there aren't any order-of-operations issues caused by caching a compound clip.