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Multiple Colorists Working Together
Only one colorist can work on a particular clip at a particular time, and the first colorist to select
a clip puts a lock on that clip. Other collaborators looking at the Thumbnail timeline in the Color
page will see a small icon that shows it’s locked, letting them know they can’t make any
changes to it until whoever is grading that clip moves to another clip.
A small icon indicates that you’re locked out
because another colorist is grading that clip
In order to prevent half-finished work from being disseminated to other colorists or editors, a
clip that’s in the process of being graded isn’t updated for other collaborators that are looking at
that timeline until the colorist who’s working on it selects another clip. These changes are then
automatically made available to all other collaborators working in the Color page, who see
badges appear in the Edit and Color pages to indicate which clips have updates available.
This makes it easy for multiple colorists to work together. For example, an assistant colorist can
be notified via Collaborative Chat to draw a custom window that a senior colorist needs for a
grade. The assistant opens that timeline in another suite, selects the appropriate clip, and draws
the window. Once finished, the assistant simply selects a different clip, and the changes they’ve
made are immediately available to the senior colorist, who sees a badge on that clip in the
Thumbnail timeline and can click to update it.
Managing Notes Among Collaborators
If an editor wants to send a note to colorists or compositing artists, they can do
one of the following:
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They can add a marker with note text to the Timeline ruler (the marker appears in the
marker submenu in the Color page Viewer option menu)
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They can add a marker with note text to a clip (that marker appears in the mini-
timeline of the Color page)
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They can color code clips in different ways to get the colorist’s attention (clip color
coding appears as a dot in the Thumbnail timeline).
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Of course, the editor and colorist can always interact via the collaborative chat
window, as well.
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