Sorting Multicam Clips by Source Camera for Color Grading in DaVinci Resolve
How to create DaVinci Resolve color grading groups based on the multicam camera angle. This video shows my workaround for not being able to filter multicam clips in the color page in Resolve. It will show you how to do multicam color correction using groups where each group is a different camera angle. You can do this by sorting the multicam clips by the source camera for color grading.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 How to filter multicam clips by angle in the color page
00:18 The problem
00:47 My workaround
03:00 Change angles after grading
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--[[
Valid clip colors you can use:
"Orange"
"Apricot"
"Yellow"
"Lime"
"Olive"
"Green"
"Teal"
"Navy"
"Blue"
"Purple"
"Violet"
"Pink"
"Tan"
"Beige"
"Brown"
"Chocolate"
]]
-- === CONFIGURATION ===
local targetText = "Angle 2" -- Text to match in clip names
local clipColor = "Tan" -- Color to set on matching clips
-- ======================
-- Get the Resolve instance
resolve = Resolve()
pm = resolve:GetProjectManager()
project = pm:GetCurrentProject()
timeline = project:GetCurrentTimeline()
if not timeline then
print("No active timeline found.")
return
end
print("Scanning clips on timeline: " .. timeline:GetName())
-- Get the number of video tracks
local trackCount = timeline:GetTrackCount("video")
for trackIndex = 1, trackCount do
local clips = timeline:GetItemListInTrack("video", trackIndex)
for _, clip in ipairs(clips) do
local name = clip:GetName()
if name:find(targetText) then
local success = clip:SetClipColor(clipColor)
if success then
print("Set clip color to " .. clipColor .. " for: " .. name)
else
print("Failed to set clip color for: " .. name)
end
end
end
end