Nested timelines - color shift issue

Hi all,

after cutting, we color grade our multicam clips in the color page. Nodes will be on "Clip", "Group", and "timeline" level to achieve the result. This process leads to a final "Master" timeline. This is the packaged for export (logos etc.)

To package this "Master" timeline, we drag this "Master" timeline into a static timeline that simply contains the respective overlaying packaging elements (logos, film titles, text overlays, credits, ...).

The issue:

As soon as the "Master" timeline is click-dragged into the packaging time line we see an unexpected color shift (slightly darker mids hence more saturation), although there is NO colorgrading applied in this timeline.

Any ideas appreciated, please?

Thx
Frank

You mentioned you have timeline grades applied. Those won't carry over to the nested timeline because they stay at the original timeline.

You could apply those grade to the new timeline and probably keyframe out the titles.

I would recommend a reverse approach.

Copy/Paste the logos, film titles, text overlays, credits into the Master timeline.