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Different types of favorites
I’m trying to wrap my head around how to breakdown footage in FCPX. I’m looking for a way to have different types of favorites. I work with long clips, sometimes about 20 minutes long. I am looking for a way to differentiate between a selected favorite of video or a selected favorite of audio. In other words, on that long, 20 minute clip, how do I selects just video footage that I like and then how do I select just audio footage that I like? All I can figure out how to do is select a general favorite, but then I can’t label or sort between audio favorites and video favorites.
Any help?
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Filter on favorites in the upper-right-hand corner of the event browser, then in the default smart collections in the left-hand sidebar, click on audio. Only your audio favorites will show up. If you want video only favorites, click on the video smart collection.
The above are library-wide smart collections and search across all events. You can also create an event-specific smart collection where the search scope is only within that event. You can create your own smart collections with specific search criteria: https://support.apple.com/guide/final-cut-pro/create-smart-collections-ver2833eb5b/mac
You can create a library-wide smart collection which searches through keyword collections in all events. In essence this creates a library-wide keyword collection. To do this, create a smart collection and add the search type “keyword”.
This video demonstrates one way to use smart collections to find material (“One Smart Collection To Rule Them All”):
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I’m assuming you are looking at one long video clip and tagging good video and good sound bites rather than seperate video and audio clips – you can either rename the favourite, even something simple like “V” and “A” so you know which was which, or probably even easier, just use keywords, which will be on hotkeys – “Good video”, “Good Audio” or similar.
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