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Some of the clip borders and audio in a Multicam timeline are a light grey

Some of the clip borders and audio waveform in a Multicam timeline are a light grey. I have no idea what I did to have this show up. The grey clips are all from the same angle. There are several Multicam sequences in the timeline. Only this sequences shows the internal Multicam clips as grey. All the others show the standard blue border.


The Multicam sequences were created on an M1 Mac Mini and FCP 10.8.1.


Mac mini, macOS 15.2

Posted on Jan 10, 2025 10:57 AM

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Jan 11, 2025 12:00 PM in response to Larrie Easterly

terrb: I reset preferences and there was no change in the timeline appearance.


I worked my way backward to the original Multicam clip in the browser. I noticed at the end of it there was a thumbnail of an effect.



I opened the Multicam in the angle editor and scrolled through it. At the very end I found that an adjustment layer called Base Correction had been added to that angle. Deleting it made the grey border go away. That solved one of the border color issues. My guess is that the color change to grey is some sort of error warning.



With that issue resolved I can now try to understand why all the clip borders are a lighter blue than normal. You can see this in the above image. The two audio clips are the normal blue border while the rest of the clips are a lighter blue.

Jan 11, 2025 10:50 AM in response to Larrie Easterly

Just to make sure you're not chasing your tail, have you tried resetting FCP Settings? Hold option and command while launching FCP and choose Delete Settings. FCP will open the default Untitled library. Set your preferences back to the way you like (disable background rendering, etc.) and see if the issue has been resolved.


If the reset doesn't change anything, please post screenshots of the Brussel Sprouts prep angle editor screen.

Jan 11, 2025 6:47 PM in response to Larrie Easterly

The grey color is not so much a warning but a visual indicator that there are different audio and/or different video roles inside the multicam or compound clip (and sync clips too I think, but I rarely use them).


If you select the Brussel Sprouts prep clips in the timeline and right-click to choose Collapse Audio Components, they should then look the same as the rest of the clips.

Some of the clip borders and audio in a Multicam timeline are a light grey

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