There are many reasons why one would want to choose different colours for different clips ranging from "a well thought out colour scheme to help identify clips" to "a desire to look trendy"!
Although the changing of track colours is easy to find.... changing the individual clips on a track to different colours is not so obvious at first.

Regards
Douglas

Again Douglas, nice work. In addition to what you've shown, if you deselect all tracks in the timeline, you can then change the background color behind the timeline.

Larry Rubin:

Again Douglas, nice work. In addition to what you've shown, if you deselect all tracks in the timeline, you can then change the background color behind the timeline.

Larry, You should be asleep!! 

I have a tutorial here, about changing the Background colour.

Link70   Changing the colours of Timeline Tracks and Clips

Also, if you Zoom in using the Scale bar under the timeline, you can see the curves much better.

Regards,
Douglas

EDIT!   Weird, I just answered this response from Larry.... and it was written a few months ago?!

Hi there, Would a new one like me be welcome here?
Thanks so much in deed.

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