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  • Search Favorite

    Posted by Georg J. kleinegees on July 16, 2011 at 5:19 am

    Hi,

    Is there a way to search for Favorite? I add Favorite by marking In and Out, pressing F and than rename the “Favorite” to “Name-It”. Now I have one Clip with a bunch of different Favorites (like good sentences in an interview)

    Can i search after “Name-it” ? I did not found any way to do so. This might be helpful in sorting raw material out.

    Craig Seeman replied 14 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  • Pavel Pavlov

    July 16, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    For these purposes, are the keywords. Isn’t it?

  • Georg J. kleinegees

    July 16, 2011 at 4:04 pm

    It’s one way to sort things out using Keywords. But when you look at the Event folder, every Keyword gets its own item. That way you ended up with trillions of single items. When using renamed Favorites you keep the whole thing a little more organized. By the way: why you can rename Favorites and can’t search for this names?

  • Craig Seeman

    July 16, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    Event Browser, upper left where it says All Clips. Change that to Favorites.
    or
    Event Browser, upper right click on magnifying glass and a popup will open. Search for Favorites or Keywords or any number of other combinations of things.

  • Brendan Gibbons

    July 16, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    When you change the item type to search for in the events browser from “all Clips” to “Favorites”, your clips with favorites attached to them appear. Great!

    It appears though that you can’t use the magnifying class search box top right to actually search for the name of a favourite that you created.

    It’s weird that you cannot narrow you search further and search for your custom named favorites.

    Cheers,

    Brendan

  • Craig Seeman

    July 16, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Click on the magnifying glass itself and you can use the popup box to do all sorts of complex searches. Select Keyword and all your keywords show up at the bottom checked. Deselect the ones you don’t want to search for.
    The search box itself doesn’t search keywords or favorites as you note.

  • Ricky Dominguez

    July 16, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    You can create a smart collection for favorite.

  • Craig Seeman

    July 16, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    Yes. Search Favorite using the magnifying glass for example and then use the Smart Collection button.

    Another example might be if you have a bunch of shots that are keyword tagged Interviews and a bunch of shots that are keyword tagged Exteriors and you wanted to search for Interviews that were Exterior, you’d search for both using the magnifying glass and you could save that as a Smart Collection as well.

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