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Clip Color Appearance

How these colors appear depends on the location of the clip. There are two options:

— Clip thumbnails in the Media Pool or the Thumbnail timeline of the Color page show a small colored dot at the upper-right-hand corner of the thumbnail.


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Thumbnails with label colors showing as dots in the corner


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— Clips in the Timeline are tinted everywhere but the thumbnail area of video clips. If you edit a clip into a track that has itself been colored, the clip color overrides the track color.


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NOTE: Clip colors are distinct from flags, which appear as badges in the Timeline, Media Pool, and Color page.


NOTE: Clip colors are distinct from flags, which appear as badges in the Timeline, Media Pool, and Color page.


NOTE: Clip colors are distinct from flags, which appear as badges in the Timeline, Media Pool, and Color page.

A timeline with audio clips that have been tinted to identify what they are to the editor


Assigning Clip Colors

Clip colors can be assigned in many different areas of DaVinci Resolve. To assign a clip color to one or more clips, do one of the following: