Hi Ron,

Thanks for the idea. It's an excellent solution. I'll try and do it on this current project and see how it comes out.

One sticky point, what if you have a cross dissolve?

--A problem I do have with this process in general - (sending my sequence to be colored in a separate application) is that I can't change my clips once they come back. I know that color can-should be the last step in editing but as the editor, colorist, audio'ist' ... I find that after a color change or effect, it will change the feel of the sequence and sometimes I want to extend or change a scene, but as far as I know, after it comes back, you can't change the clip.

Well, maybe I need to rethink my workflow and be totally done when I start to color correct. It's just that sometimes the great stuff comes out when I think I'm done and try something in a slightly different way. Anyway, just a thought.

--Jenny

On the whole, I like the idea of working with Looks for color grading still over color as you stay in the application.

As for worrying about crossfades, I wouldn't. As all you are trying to do in Color is correct and grade your footage. When you send your sequence back to FCP, the transitions will be in place, and can still be tweaked or replaced as needed. All that I am looking for Color to do is grade and correct my footage, that's it. All of my editing is done in FCP.