Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity Forums Apple Final Cut Pro Double checking: it is impossible to keyword a clip from the timeline. Am I right?

  • Double checking: it is impossible to keyword a clip from the timeline. Am I right?

    Posted by Noam Osband on May 6, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    I am finishing a piece, and when I remove little clips to make it shorter, I want to keyword those final cuts just in case I want to use them again. I seem unable to keyword from the timeline. I need to the browser to do that. Am I right about this?

    Bret Williams replied 11 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies
  • Xander Snell

    May 6, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    Hi,
    I think you are correct. Keywording is a event browser function. You can select a clip (or range) in a timeline, use ‘reveal in browser’ (Shift+F) and then keyword from the browser to selection.

  • Noah Kadner

    May 6, 2015 at 4:02 pm
  • Bret Williams

    May 6, 2015 at 9:22 pm

    In a round about way you can do a “find used” of a particular sequence and create a collection based on items from that so you can keyword them in batches.

    For example it works great if someone hands you a project where the media was organized into timelines instead of bins/keywords. It happens. You can then find all the used media in a timeline and apply a keyword in one shot to all that media.

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy