Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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If the project from the last exercise is not open, open Board Feet from your FCP HOT Book Projects folder.

The easiest way to think of the Browser is that it is a database, listing all the elements you can access in your project. Sometimes, though, a project has so many elements, it's hard to find the one you are looking for.

That's where the Find command comes in.

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Click once in the Browser to select it. Choose Edit > Find (Cmd+F).

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In the Find dialog box, type Flying and click Find Next.

4.

The Flying clip is highlighted in the Browser. You can find clips based on an entry in any column or a specific column. To find another clip that meets the same criteria, press Cmd+G.

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But it gets better. This time, choose Edit > Find, type track into the data entry box, then click Find All.

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This time, every clip that meets your search criteria is displayed in the Find Results dialog box, including sequences that contain clips whose name includes "track."

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Click a clip name in the Find Results dialog box to display that clip in the Browser.

This next tip is one of my personal favorites.

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Select Seq Snowboard Start. Choose Edit > Find.

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Delete any text in the Any Column Contains entry box in the lower-right corner, then choose Unused Media from the For pop-up menu, and click Find All.

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Every clip in the Browser that is not in your selected sequence (or sequences) is displayed in the Find Results dialog box. Finding unused media is a great help when you are desperate to find a shot you haven't used yet.

A word of caution, however. If you have a clip that runs, say, 30 minutes and you use 5 seconds of it, the entire clip is flagged as used. For me, this is another great reason to log your clips and capture them in shorter pieces, rather than capturing an entire tape to disk.

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Well, that's it for this chapter. Save your work and quit Final Cut if you are going to take a break for a while.