Some way of coloring the root Multicam angle without opening

Super tedious and wasteful operation: if I'm grading a TL with clips and Multicam clips mixed, and want to grade Angle 2 of that Multicam, I have to got Edit, then open in timeline, then back to color, adjust, then back to edit, and back out one tier to the main timeline. WOOOOF.

In Color page: Right click on the clip in the clips timeline, "Angle-level grade" > [angles names], you then get a clip icon/border to let you know you're "zoomed in", node tree updates to THAT clip's node and adds a button to the node area like "exit angle grade" or something. Click it, border/icon goes away, now it's the color page seeing the top-level Multicam again.

I'm not sure it'd be that simple, given the way Multicam works.

I'm not sure it'd be that simple, given the way Multicam works.

Care to elaborate?

Multicam is kind of like a picture frame, with the original clips being the picture inside that frame.

This design allows us to adjust either the picture, or the frame, independently. I like that arrangement, and that's what causes the current necessity of Open in Timeline.

Multicam is kind of like a picture frame, with the original clips being the picture inside that frame.

These design allows us to adjust either the picture, or the frame, independently. I like that arrangement, and that's what causes the current necessity of Open in Timeline.

I guess I'm not seeing why that concept, and this idea, are in conflict. I get the picture frame thing and multicam, and that it's nested... this doesn't violate that. I just means that IN the color page, you should be able to drill down a layer into the multicam clip without needing to leave the color tab. You're talking more about the overarching concept of nested grading, which this suggestion still works in.

So to put it in my own words, you're just looking for an Open in Timeline option on the Color page, as well as the Edit page?

So to put it in my own words, you're just looking for an Open in Timeline option on the Color page, as well as the Edit page?

In concept, yes. A way to drill into a nested angle's clip grade while still looking at the timeline-level multicam clip edits. Open angle grade > flips in node tree, you can dropdown between angles in the corner. When you're done, it switches back to the default, of just seeing that multicam clip's nodes again. (Clips in the color timeline should probably update while "flipped" as well, to accommodate multiple consecutive clips within one angle.)