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I have a small problem, when in EDIT I perform a more complex montage with various clips or titles or images superimposed on multiple video layers, when I switch to COLOR I never find the clip corresponding to the timeline, and every time I have to scroll the clips to find the right one to apply the color to, how can I avoid this? This clearly doesn't happen if I only have one video track, it happens to me when I have multiple video tracks. (SEE ATTACH IMAGE )
Thanks to those who will be able to advise me.

Stormadv wrote:how can I avoid this?

Do all the editing first, all the Color work later. Don't switch back and forth.

The way Resolve works is that clip selection is irrelevant. The Playhead remains on the same frame as you move across pages. The top most clip will be the one 'selected' as you move to Color.

Another thing you can do is to turn off transitions with the UNMIX button on the Viewer on the Color page. This will let you quickly just color correct individual shots without stumbling through different transitions and layers and so on.

To make things easier in final color, we generally request that they flatten the timeline to 1 track, or maybe no more than 2 tracks. God help you when they come in with 10-12-14 video tracks, which gets very unwieldly in color.

Marc Wielage wrote:Another thing you can do is to turn off transitions with the UNMIX button on the Viewer on the Color page. This will let you quickly just color correct individual shots without stumbling through different transitions and layers and so on.

To make things easier in final color, we generally request that they flatten the timeline to 1 track, or maybe no more than 2 tracks. God help you when they come in with 10-12-14 video tracks, which gets very unwieldly in color.

Thank you for reply,
my works only see a video footage track, a second with inserts, a third with graphics and effects, a fourth with titles ... in my first projects on Davinci I must say that everything is fine except this fact of color, in some documentaries where there are many clips it creates problems for me not to have correspondence between the clip I am editing and I move to the 'color' section ... in fact it always recalls the clip of the highest video track. Clearly this doesn't happen if you only have one video track (of course).