multicam grading one clip grades all.

I'm editing a multicam concert that had 10 songs originally but I'm only cutting 5. I already finished one which went great but as I'm starting a 2nd song I'm fining that any color changes I make to one cut affects all of them. This didn't happen in the previous song. It seems like somehow I've gotten into a different mode for editing altogether.

On the color page each thumbnail now shows has 2 little red squares with an arrow on the lower right. I didn't see that in the previous cut. I don't think I've seen that before:

Jules Multi red squares.png (370.66 KiB) Viewed 643 times

I don't know that its relevant but the timeline I'm using was originally 5 songs before I cut the other 4 songs off, so I could work with only one at a time. That worked fine with the previous piece.

So what's going on and how do I fix it?

lenny

The pink icon indicates you are in Remote Grades mode. This links grades that refer to the same media clip in the Media Pool. In this case it is the Multicam Clip.
Right click a thumbnail and select Copy Remote grades to local.
Then Right click a thumbnail and select Use Local grades.
You will now be in Local Grade mode and all clip grades are independent of each other.

I usually like to flatten the multicam clips to the source clips before grading so the grades are not on the Multicam Clip 'container' but are on the actual clips.

Thanks- worked

I usually like to flatten the multicam clips to the source clips before grading so the grades are not on the Multicam Clip 'container' but are on the actual clips.

Peter, can you explain this in more detail, I am not sure I understand it.

Think of the Multicam as a picture frame, and the original clip as the picture. You can make changes to either. You can draw with marker on the glass of the frame, or you can take the picture out of the frame and draw on it directly.

Flattening a Multicam is like taking the picture out of the frame.

You do this with a right click on a Multicam clip.

Thanks Jim. I did a multicam edit last week and felt completely lost while doing it. I am working on it this week to better understand it.