FCP X 10.1 keywords & smart collections

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s what everyone wanted, right?

[Tony West]

OK I got you.

That does seem weird that it doesn’t find those names.

But if I type in just Paul it will find any of his pics or Kleba (who is in another event) and is talking about Paul that’s a marker or sound.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[tony west] “But if I type in just Paul it will find any of his pics or Kleba (who is in another event) and is talking about Paul that’s a marker or sound.”

Yes. You can search for other metadata at the Library level, I just want more.

😉

How’s the Library performing with all your clips?

Jeremy

[Bret Williams]

Yeah. As it stands libraries are a replacement for event manager which also comes with additional media management benefits. But you’re right. Within the app, no real functional benefit.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Again, I’m not against Libraries, I just wish Events worked differently within them.

Otherwise, they are a welcome addition.

[Tony West]

[Jeremy Garchow] ” I just want more.”

I like that you keep pushing.

[Jeremy Garchow] “How’s the Library performing with all your clips?”

So far it’s working pretty well for me but I’m still trying to get reorganized with it.

I was already organizing in a admittedly unorthodox way : )

But everything transferred right over.

I still have all of my subjects of the doc in their own events that contain their sit down, pics, documents
and such. I like seeing them in order by name and I can just select that event as I get to their section.

Out of all these files I have I have not had anytime wasted looking for anything so far.

[Tony West]

I do miss seeing the HD icon in the window that showed what drive my event was on.

Not sure why that had to go away : /

[Bret Williams]

Yeah, those clips all have the word paul in them. In fact, you can’t search for keywords at any level now that I think about it, you can’t search for keywords at any level. Library or event. If you were searching at the event level, you’d just click on the keyword, so I suppose they see it as a pointless action.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Bret Williams] “so I suppose they see it as a pointless action.”

Right, but that was back when there was typically one Event per job.

Now that all of that has changed, it seems the search and sort capabilities should change, too.

[Tony West]

[Jeremy Garchow] “that was back when there was typically one Event per job”

I’m up to 42 events in this documentary and I find it faster to…..

1. click the Event (for me the person’s name)

2. click the collection (interview or pics)

I can make those two clicks faster than I can type the name out.

At most 3 clicks if I have to twirl it down.

Since they are in alphabetical order I go right to them visually.