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Updating keywords
Hi there,
Is there a way to make keywords automatically update when you edit them? For example, I had a keyword “Pulp & Paper Industry” and I’m changing it to “Pulp and paper industry”. However, if I edit the keyword in Preferences it does not update on the clips that have already been keyworded. So I either have to manually go to each clip, delete the old keyword and add the new one – which can obviously be very time consuming – or “Search and Replace” the keyword.
Same if you delete a keyword, is there a way that it can automatically delete it from the clips as well?
– Whitney
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3 Replies
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do a query on the entire database for all the clips with the same keywords and change them en mass to the new one. Then delete the old one. I’d think that would work.
Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Look under the tools menu and use search and replace tool or the even the bulk edit tool to do this in larger chunks. The Worker Node could also do this with a server query.
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Both of those suggestions are right on.
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