Multi-clip color correction

As a recent convert from Avid, I'm finding one of my most useful tools not unavailable. After my edit is finished, I want to do a single color-correction that will apply to all shots from the same source without having to manually apply it to all clips...mind you they are SEPARATE clips.
iMac Intel Core Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.10)   FCP 6.01

FCP doesn't do that. So what your best bet is to color each angle. Drag the filter from the FILTERS TAB and into your FAVORITES bin, or a separate bin. Name that filter the tape name...and do this for all of the angles. Then go thru the sequence and drag the appropriate filter onto the angle that is showing. Shot by shot.
Either that or COPY one angle...then paste the attributes to every other occurance of that angle...repeat for each angle. But the first suggestion will be the least confusing.
DIsappointed? I hear ya. Sorry. Avid is, what...15 years old? More? FCP is...6? Avid has had more time to develop things. FCP is getting there...fast. But there are still places it is lacking.
But Andy is right...FCP is not Avid, so trying to do Avid-like things on it will only dissappoint. Converse is true as well. I am on an Avid right now and grumbling at what is missing.
Shane

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