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Organizing Storyline Clips into Folders
Anyone know of a way to organize clips already in the main storyline by placing them into topical folders (bins)?
In FCP7 you could drag any clip in the timeline into a bin and create little sets of related clips that way.
My rough cut workflow is to drop an uncut raw interview clip into an FCPX storyline, color correct & audio sweeten the whole clip, add any other effects to the whole piece and THEN go through and slice it up into separate chunks.
Is there any way to add metadata to clips in the storyline?
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Why not just play the clip in the Event Browser and mark in and out and Favorite or Keyword it?
Another method would be as you mark in and out in the Timeline, click Shift S and it will reveal the clip in the Event Browser and in Filmstrip mode (not List View) it will have the same range selected there as well. At that point you can Favorite or Keyword it.
You can’t move a Timeline clip back to a Collection (bin) but either of the other two would work.
The big unfortunate is that neither will carry any color correction or sweetening from the timeline as far as I can tell.
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You can see all of the clips used in the timeline in the window beside the timeline when placed in list view.
This effectively makes the whole timeline an instant bin. If you want to, you can select the clips in the bin and assign a keyword to those clips in the timeline.
To organize those in the event browser you could just create a keyword collection which is a sifted bin.
David.
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You can tag new keywords within the timeline. And you can put shortcuts to certain keywords.
Every keyword is a new bin, so it is at least as fast as i any other editor. -
Hmmm….just tried this. Somehow it is not polished yet. Definitely only works on one clip at a time with me. I also hoped I could select a range of clips and tag them (which will automatically create a collection for those clips).
hope this gets fixed in 10.1
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You need to rethink your workflow. This is a classic case of trying to make it work like fcp7. It doesn’t need fixed, nothing is broken. Using the timeline to organize your footage worked in 7 because the organizing tools in 7 were weak. Embrace keywords and smart collections. Do your organizing where it’s intended, in the event library.
Best,
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Fair enough. But the whole point of my FCP7 style workflow was to only have to add effects (Color correction, audio enhancements) once to an hour long interview clip. Then after it is broken up into smaller segments in the storyline each clip retains the adjustments.
Is it possible to add effects to clips in the event browser? Or can anyone recommend a FAST way to apply the same effects to all of the cut sub-clips AFTER they have been sliced and assigned keywords in the event browser?
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Alban:
How do you tag clips in the storyline with keywords so they’ll show up in specific folders in the event browser?
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