toggle multiple clips

[Andy Neil]

To answer your first question: yes. Select all the clips in your event browser and hit OPT+left arrow to close the disclosure triangle and hide favorites and keywords. OPT+right arrow will expand to show them.

For your second question, you can’t stop it from showing the favorite when you create a favorite, but it shouldn’t stop you from quickly going through your clips. The clip you are on will remain active after a favorite has been completed, and if you want to jump down to the next clip in the browser, you only need hit the down arrow key.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Jason Brown]

Thanks Andy for the response…this is cleaning up my workflow quite a bit.

[Andy Neil] “Select all the clips in your event browser and hit OPT+left arrow”

Just tested this and actually, there’s no need to press option…just the left and right arrows collapse and expand.

Thanks! 🙂

[Jonathan White]

Thanks for the tip, very helpful as the disclosure triangles close up every time I change keyword folder or event…. used to have to open them all individually every time!!
Johnny

Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland

[Kyle Bass]

Nice. I was also getting a little annoyed with those disclosure triangles. This will speed my organizational tasks up a bit.

[Joni Church]

Hi Jason and Andy,

I see that this is a very old post, so I’m wondering if the current version of FCPX has changed.

It sounds like when Jason added a Favorite to a clip, the clip automatically expanded in the browser to show the Favorite. Andy mentioned there was no way to stop it from doing that.

I’m having the opposite issue, actually. I *want* the clip to expand automatically when I add a Favorite so I can then name the Favorite without having to manually toggle the arrow open, but when I add a Favorite, the clip doesn’t expand.

Did this change in one of the FCPX updates maybe? Or is there a way to force the clips to automatically expand?

Thanks a lot for any thoughts,
Joni

[Jason Brown]

Looks like it has changed. What I was trying to do before is what I can do today in 10.1.3.

[Joni Church]

Ah, I figured as much. But I had to hold out hope that there might a way to choose! Sometimes it’s the littlest things…

Thanks for the confirmation, Jason.