Peter Chamberlain wrote:If you have 20 angles in your multicam, and these are used i the timeline intermingled with non multicam clips, selecting any one of the multicam clips and then right clicking, open in timeline, will show you all 20 tracks/clips, which you can grade in the color page.. and those same cameras/angles will be granded for all uses of those clips in all the subsequent multicams.
Is this not working for your workflow?
Sorry, I missed your reply. I understand your method and I appreciate that method. It doesn't seem to work well in an uncontrolled environment. Please, let me explain. When you're shooting multiple camera angles in an uncontrolled environment (e.g. outside) with lighting changes due to the sun, etc. And you clip the parts you want into angles. You tend to choose the best multicam angles based on lighting, etc. Once you've done that, you want to color them all together by just focussing on the usable clips, not the long running footage for each angle but the actual clips you want to use. In a controlled environment what you state is the way to go, but when the lighting varies a lot, you'll end up with a better output if you look only at the individual clips.
Often times I group multicam segments into different groups based on lighting conditions even though they are from the same camera/angle. I group them all, use the lightbox feature, pull out similar lighted segments and put them into another group, etc. Once I have them all grouped, I color the entire group using post clip and make minor adjustments from time to time in a clip. That doesn't work well with simply coloring the long running clips in the multicam opened as a timeline scenario.
We truly need the ability to smart filter the separate clips within a multicam. We can put them in groups so why can't we smart filter them?
A Use Case Might HelpAnd here's the real world use case. Imagine you strap two cameras on a vehicle (e.g. a kayak) one pointed forward and one backward and you film yourself as you travel around (e.g. catching fish). Sometimes you're pointed directly at the sun and sometimes you're not...in fact you're at all different lighting angles. Because you don't know when the action will take place you're recording all of the time. And at any point in time or lighting angle you may want to use the action captured (e.g. caught fish). The good news is that you've got multiple angles to play with in post.
So you sit down, edit your footage, keeping only the best angles from your multicam shoot...sometimes wishing you could move the sun itself, but alas you can't so you take the other angle and/or cover with some b-roll or drone shots. Now you want to color it to ensure different cameras match, mood, etc. But those 300 segments you ended up with inside of that multicam clip....there's no way to filter them to the given angle so that you can color that angle as a group....let me take that back, you can do it...you have to click one at a time with multi-select, ensure you're precise on your clicks and keep the multi-select key down, scroll the strip as you click each one, and once they're all selected right click and add them to a group. Now you need to repeat that same laborious process for the other angle too. Then you can lightbox each group, re-group any that have extremely different lighting, and now start color correction/grade against the groups you made. That whole precise-click-multi-select-and-scroll-with-manual-selection-of-angle-name part of the process would be two clicks if you could Smart Filter angles in a multicam clip.
PS I've actually come back to this thread to see if it's been fixed within 18 but it doesn't look as if it was.