Color matching with multicam clips

Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how I can color match between my multicam clips in FCPX. I'm kind of a newbie, but I'm trying... :-)
If I double click on a multicam clip that I just created, I see all the clips expanded on the timeline. At that point, I can sync, edit, etc. If I color match there, it's very easy, and it works well. The problem is that I can't figure out how to save all my edits and then "un-expand" the mulitcam clip so it's just the one layered clip (same as if you just drag the multicam clip down from the events list).
I suppose I could just leave it expanded - but it would be easier to work with if it was just the one multicam clip, instead of all the clips inside it expanded out. So - how do I do it? Am I making sense? If the color matching applied to the actual event, it would be easy - and I could just create a new multicam clip and start a new project. However, it doesn't work that way and only applies the color matching to the clip in the timeline (as it should....).
Thanks for any help you might have.
Johnny

Hi Tom,
I've got a similar problem to the one you helped on this thread.
I'm trying to colour correct one of the multicam clips in the angle editor.
When I click colour match and hover over the other clip part of this multi cam clip nothing happens and the 'apply match' button remains greyed out.
I can colour match the individual cuts back in normal time line but of course I don't want to waste time doing it to every single clip/cut.
Why won't it let me colour correct in angle editor?
The mouse icon turns into a mini monitor when I hover over the clip i want to match to.
Any ideas?

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