MacBeth chart - Adjust Color Space - What do I do next?

I have watched Colin Smith's Speedgrade Tutorial: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/no-stupid-questions-with-colin-smith/introduction-to-speedgrade/
Very well done. Thanks!
One question remains:
Using a Canon 5D MIII, I have shot a MacBeth chart (X-Rite Original ColorChecker Card) and was able to successfully use the “Go” button under the “Clip" tab and then sub tab "Color Space” checking “Override input format’s default color space." The adjustment is amazing and the it surprised me how well this turned out.
However, now I have a color corrected 2-second video clip of a MacBeth chart. Where do I go from here? I have 50 clips and cannot use LOOKs to store this adjustment as it is in the color space world. Also, I seem to fail storing the actual color space in any way. For test purposes, I have made a screenshot of the Exposure, Black Level and Matrix settings and then entered the 15 numbers into another clip with great success, but this is a bit tedious to put it mildly.
Any advice is appreciated!
Thanks!
CU
Heiko

I've done some checking on this. With the way ALL timeline-affecting things have been locked down for Direct Link work, this is NOT available in DL workflows. Very unfortunately, in my opinion ... which is sometimes very humble, but in this case, not so much!
Please file BOTH bug AND program feature requests on this ... invite your friends to do so also! Not only is the Passport color-checker chart quite a useful production tool, there are a couple similar things for video that are even better. NONE of which are usable in a DL flow.
Except ... that you can start in native mode creating an ircp file, do the same thing as done in that tutorial you referenced, save the results as a Look, and then apply that Look say in an second primary just above the footage primary during your normal DL workflow. Then apply any basic WB style color cast corrections to the lowest primary. It would be similar to the way a LOG style LUT/Look correction layer is used.
Try this and see how it works.
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