Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:53 am
I'm not sure this is entirely practical.
Color page processing happens after Fusion page processing.
On the Fusion page, your preview areas could show the output of any arbitrary node - it is not tied to what is shown on the timeline on the Edit page.
This means that what you show in the preview area may be 100% unrelated to what is shown on the Edit page and the color grade from the Color page may be completely inappropriate to what you are previewing.
Particularly if you have any secondary grades in place, attempting to apply the Color page grade to an arbitrary node's output can actually make it harder to follow what is happening at some point in the composition, as it could distort your understanding of a mask you are creating, or of what might be feeding into some other node.
If this were to be implemented, it should be limited to being applied only when previewing the MediaOut node, and even then I'm not too sure.
Incidentally, you can have more than one MediaOut node, and each of them feeds one of the inputs along the left side of the node graph on the Color page, which can be rewired in the Color page much as nodes can be rewired in the Fusion page, so even with a MediaOut node selected there is no guarantee that the output of that node will translate to the image that is displayed on the Edit page, and it is possible to composite multiple such outputs using the Color page as well, so showing the grade output may give an incorrect perspective when looking at the MediaOut node also.
The MediaOut node represents what is being fed INTO the Color page, not what is coming out of it.