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Add Keywords to Clips Already in Timeline?
Hi Everyone,
Out of curiosity, is it possible to add keywords to clips I’ve already put in the timeline? I tried dragging them back up to the keyword folder I want them all to have, but that doesn’t work. 🙂
Thx!
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6 Replies
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No. You could at best match frame (⇧F) a clip and assign one, but that’s not recursive AFAIK.
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That’s the only way I know of. But once you keyword it its key worded everywhere. It really is silly you can’t keyword grime the timeline. Especially when a client hands you a premiere project that was organized by sequences instead of bins. I can convert the project to X, but there’s no way to drag the clips from timeline to anywhere.
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How is a keyword helpful once a clip is in a sequence?
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Well in this instance the client created a bunch of sequences serving the purpose of key wording/selects in premiere. I XML’d it over to X. Now in X I’d rather not edit by copying and pasting between sequences. If I could open a sequence in a source monitor it wouldn’t be as terrible, but in X the concept of editing between sequences is even more tiresome.
So…. I’d like to simply drag all the clips in the sequences to their appropriate keyword collections so I can edit normally. Other NLEs would allow you to drag clips in a sequence to a bin no problem.
To do so in X requires match framing every clip then keywording one by one.
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My workaround:
– make a Smart Collection, with the parameter Used Media on
– open the timeline/project with the clips you want to Keyword
– all the used clips in that project will now show up in your Event Viewer (with the Smart Collection selected)
– select all the clips, then do an ‘alt-X’ to reset all the in- and out-point
– do a select-all again, and keyword them all at onceDone 🙂
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Not bad at all. My duh.
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