Is there any way to have the Browser show just the clips in a project?

[Michael Hancock]

Look into smart collections. I believe you can do that with them, where you only show used footage. Smart collections are basically dynamic filters, so as you add footage to your timeline it will update with those clips. If you remove a clip from the timeline it will no longer be shown in the smart collection.

Here’s a great overview of smart collections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjuCfJFhdo0

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Michael Hancock
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[Joe Marler]

[Noam Osband] “I made a string out with lots of highlights. I want to be able to have that open and have the browser show me only what’s in the project. Is there any way to do that? “

This sounds like the common issue in FCPX of using a project for stringouts, then wanting to skim it while another project is open or wanting to have multiple projects open concurrently.

For better or worse, FCPX is not designed to work that way. You keyword and rate media in the browser, then filter on that to add to your main project.

What about cases where you want stringouts in a certain clip order, or maybe multiple stringouts? Make those compound clips. They then become skimmable objects in the browser. You can easily select ranges from that and add to your timeline.

You can also create a smart collection to show only used media. BTW this is used media for the currently open project, not all used media from all projects. Open the stringout project, click on the used media smart collection you created, and only clips used in the project appear in the browser. CMD+A to select those browser clips, then keyword them, e.g, “stringout1”. Then open your main project and you can click on the stringout1 keyword collection to see only the clips used in stringout1. They will not be in the stringout timeline order but will be visible as discrete clips you can rapidly skim through.