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I have a scanned Film Grain layer that is an Overlay layer over top my entire program.

I find that whenever I try and jump into the Color tab to grade a clip, it always defaults to wanting to grade this clip unless I literally turn the track completely off.

I notice this same behavior when trying to create a Fusion clip. Even if I have a given clip selected, if there is a clip above it it will create a Fusion clip of the top most clip. It doesn't seem to respect the Auto Select toggle either.

Is there any way to make this work correctly? Or is this something that needs to be finessed in the software?
It would be nice if it just respected my clip selection, or at the very least took into account the Auto-Select toggle so that it will always ignore the tracks I would like it to ignore.

Dustin Bowser wrote:I find that whenever I try and jump into the Color tab to grade a clip, it always defaults to wanting to grade this clip unless I literally turn the track completely off.

Try option-clicking the track in the Color page, the overlay will still be there but it won't show up as a clip.

As for the Fusion clip behaviour, this is intentional, see the New Features manual.

Is the Fusion Clip behavior a feature though? I'm curious why it would work this way.

If I have a clip in my timeline, and a Title above it, the only way I can make a Fusion clip out of the clip below is to turn the top one off. That seems unnecessarily clunky and messy. The software should be smart enough to know that if I have a clip selected that is the clip I want to take into Fusion.

Dustin, consider that in the fusion page, you see every clip thats in the edit timeline. the selected clip in the edit page bears no resemblance to the timeline of clips that show in Fusion.

Titles also only show in Fusion and Color if you make them into a compound clip, or Fusion clip.

The color page 'unmix' button, next to picker and mute on the viewer, also lets you select one clip to grade without the dissolves or mixes or tracks above, and option clicking the track label in color is the other method, as mentioned above.

BTW, thanks for your feedback.. its good to see