Keywords Won´t Work

[Nicolas J russo]

Same here. Is really weird. Is not supposed to be like that.
I´m doing all my searches at the library level.

[Brian Seegmiller]

I hope the next version will fix this this problem. Maybe tomorrow we will know.

[Nicolas J russo]

You think? I think that FCP money it what they expend on toilet paper at Cupertino.

[Brian Seegmiller]

Try doing range based keywords in Premiere Pro. It is impossible. When doing keywords in FCP X we need to have a naming convention that makes sense so you don’t have them all over the place that does not make sense. Using a phrase from an interview and then not putting that into a folder with the name of the person who said the phrase might not work as well instead of creating a folder for each person that was interviewed and putting it in there. You could use a folder or an event for that purpose. I am not saying this is the best way but there are many ways to go about it. I have tried to do this in PP and it’s not happening.

[Mark Smith]

What I tend to do is keep my amount of keywords rather small. So if I am logging interviews the subject name will be a keyword e.g.: Nina. Then if I like something Nina says, I’ll select that range where she says that pertinent bit in the browser, keyword it Nina and then to the right of the keyword in list view there is a field where I can type in a note which will be a text note about what she said.
So what this allows me to do is a search on the text in the note field which is fast or I can select the keyword collection for Nina and see the list of all the things she said that I thought were of use. I like keywords, but I have found that too many of them make for poor project organization and clutter. Better to throw terms you want searchable into notes field and use keywords to filter a more general set of things such as interview subjects, ‘exterior b roll’ ‘scenes’ etc.

[Brian Seegmiller]

That is a good way to do it.