Final Cut Pro X Weynand Certification Lesson

1. Lesson 3:
Organizing Clips
in an Event
Apple Pro Training Series
Final Cut Pro X
2nd Edition
Instructor: Sam Edsall

2. Event Management
• Manually assigning keywords
• Rating clips
• Creating Smart Collections
Getting things organized
• To arrange and combine the Event clips so you can
easily find them.
• Done by using the Event Library and Event
Browser to organize, sort, filter, and find your
media.
The Goal

3. Metadata
• Provides information about your content
• Content, title, length, format, creator, etc.
• Tells you something about the clip without looking at it
Data about data
• Automatically logged during import
• Like in lesson 2  duration, date, format
• Tagging keywords to clips  metadata
• Rating clips with a thumbs up and thumbs down  metadata
• Final Cut Pro uses the metadata to organize your content into
a structure that is easy to sort, filter, search, and retrieve.
How FCP uses Metadata

4. 3 Types of Metadata
• Stored in the camera source files
• Date, clip duration, time code, frame rate and size
Camera Metadata
• Clips analyzed from media source files by FCP
• People and shot detection
• Video & audio problems – stability, hum, etc.
Final Cut Pro metadata
• Done by you
• Keywords, ratings, Smart Collections
• Personalized clip organization for a faster and easier workflow.
User metadata

5. Load up the Event
Load up Lesson 2, if
necessary.
In the Library, select the
Delicious Peace Event from
Mac HD.
-- what we used last week.
Beneath the Event Library,
click the List View button to
view the clips as a list.

6. Event View Settings
Set the Event Browser filter at
the upper left is set to All
Clips.
Also choose Group Clips By
> None

7. Clip Metadata in List View
• Clip metadata under each column heading
• Name, start and end time code, duration, creation date
• Metadata came from the original camera files
• You can add your own metadata in the Notes column and
display additional columns
Data about your data

8. Event, Keywords,
Smart Collections
In the Library, click the
disclosure triangles next to the
I Think and Zero to Hero
Events.
Open the I Think > People
folder, to see the clip
collections listed within those
folders.

9. Color Coding
• Purple icon with white star
Event
• Purple icon with dark gear
Smart Collections
• Blue icon with dark key
Keyword Collections

10. Event, Keywords,
Smart Collections
Under the I Think Event,
select the One Person Smart
Collection.
To see these clips in filmstrip
view, click the Filmstrip View
button.

11. Clip Coding
• Purple horizontal line across
the top indicates an analysis
keyword
• ‘Find People’ and ‘Create
Smart Collection’ was
selected in the Import dialog
box
• FCP automatically collected
the clips with one person and
placed them in the One
Person Smart Collection.
The Purple Line

12. Event, Keywords,
Smart Collections
In the Event Library under
the Zero to Hero Event,
click the Interviews
Keyword Collection.

13. Clip Coding
• Blue horizontal line
across the top indicates
a key word collection
• This text-based
Keyword Collection is
named after the
Interviews folder you
imported in lesson 2.
The Blue Line

14. Resizing the Event Browser
Place your pointer over the boundary line between the Event
Browser and the Viewer.
When it changes to the resize pointer, drag right to enlarge the
Event Browser.

15. Resizing the Event Browser
In the Library, select the
Delicious Peace Event.
Drag the Clip Duration
slider to All to view
individual thumbnail
images.

16. Resizing the Event Browser
Under Clip Appearance
deselect Show Waveforms.
Adjust the Clip Height slider
all the way down until you
see nearly all the clips in this
Event.

17. Adding Keyword
Collections
• Descriptive text label
you apply to a clip.
• Adding keywords helps
you organize, sort, and
finding your media
• Helps speed up your
editing workflow
A Keyword
Collection

18. Creating Keyword
Collections
In the Library, close the
disclosure triangle next to the
I think and Zero to Hero
Events.
Select the Delicious Peace
Event and click the List
View.

19. Creating Keyword
Collections
Click the Beans being Hulled
clip.
• This event has a variety of
clips
• Coffee making process
• People and village life
Getting things
organized
• Let’s group these different
clips into their own keyword
collections
Keyword collections

20. Creating Keyword
Collections
In the Event Browser, click
the Keyword Editor button.
-- or press Command-K.
The Keyword Editor opens
with the name of the
selected clip, Beans being
hulled, displayed in the
name area of the window.
-- any information entered in the
Keyword field will be added to
this clip.

21. Creating Keyword
Collections
In the Keyword field, type
Coffee
Watch the beans being
hulled clip filmstrip as you
press Return.
-- the keyword you entered floats
up into a blue horizontal line that
is added to the filmstrip.

22. Checking out your clip
Skim though the beans being hulled clip.
Choose View > Show Skimmer Info (Control Y) then skim
again.
-- shows name of clip, keyword, and current play head position.

23. Keyword Collection Icons
• New blue Keyword
collection under the
Event
Event Library
• Filmstrip view - Blue
line on clip
• List view - Key under
the clip
Event Browser

24. Add More Clips to Your
Collection
Select the coffee buds clip.
In the Keyword Editor, click
the Keyword Shortcuts
disclosure triangle to display
the keyword shortcuts list.
Click the Control 1 (^1)
button.
-- Coffee keyword added to this
clip, too.

25. Add More Clips to Your
Collection
Drag em’:
Click the coffee plant clip.
Shift-click the hand shake
clip to select all of these
clips.
Drag the selected clips into
the Event Library and onto
the Coffee Keyword
collection.

26. Check Them Out
In the Library, select the Coffee keyword collection.
-- Now 10 clips with the keyword Coffee appear together in the Event
Browser.

27. Removing a Keyword
from a Clip
• Sometimes you have a
clip in a collection that
doesn’t belong there
Oops
• Select the clip with the
wrong keyword and
press Control 0
‘Un-Keyword’ it

28. Remove a Clip From Your
Collection
Skim though the hand shake
clip.
-- not a good Coffee keyword
clip.
While the hand shake clip is
selected, click on Control 0
(^0) and watch the filmstrip as
the keyword turns into a puff
of smoke and the blue line
disappears.

29. Assigning Multiple
Keywords to Clips
• Clips with several
keywords make it easier
to find.
• As you tag clips with
additional keywords,
they will find their ways
into more Keyword
Collections.
More is better

30. Adding Multiple Keywords
to Clips
Select the Delicious Peace
Event in the Library.
Click the Filmstrip View
button, and then drag the
Clip Duration slider to All.
Scroll to find 9 coffee clips
you already tagged.

31. Adding Multiple Keywords
to Clips
Select the JJ beans clip, and then Shift click the JJ ties bag
clip.
In the Keyword Editor window, type JJ in the Keyword field
and press Return.

32. Adding Multiple Keywords
to Clips
In the Event Browser, Command click the JJ on peace clip to
deselect it and leave the other 3 selected.
In the Name field of the Keyword Editor next to the word JJ,
type Sorting and press Return.

33. Assigning Multiple
Keywords to Clips
• Create a bunch of
keywords you know you
will need
• Then select the clips that
need a keyword and
assign them
• Drag them over the
keyword in the Event
Library
• Click on the button
• Keyboard shortcut
Speed Keys

34. Speed Keywording
In the Keyword Editor, enter
these keywords into the
keyword shortcut fields.
Press Tab after each keyword
entry to move to the next field.
Control-4: Graphics
Control-5: Maps
Control-6: Narration
Control-7: Music
Control-8: Village
Control-9: Members

35. Speed Keywording
In the Event Browser, select
the Bumper_Delicious clip,
and then Shift-click the
Bumper_Partners clip.
Assign the Graphics
keyword to all of these clips
-- click the Keyword Shortcut
button (^4)
-- press Control-4 on your
keyboard

36. Speed Keywording
In the Event Library, select
the new Sorting Keyword
collection to see these clips.
Since these have to do with
the coffee making process,
drag them into the Coffee
Keyword Collection.

37. Dump a Keyword
Collection
• Control-click (or 2-
finger click) the
offending keyword
collection in the Event
Library
• Select “Delete
Keyword Collection”
in the shortcut menu
Lose it

38. Dump a Keyword
Collection
Delete the Sorting Keyword
Collection from the Event
Library:
Select the Sorting Keyword
Collection
Press Command Delete or
Control click and select
Delete Keyword
Collection.

39. Speed Keywording
Add the Maps
keyword to the two
map clips.
Add Narration
keyword to the 5 VO
clips.
Add Music to the
the Zylophone clip.

40. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
• You may find a few
great seconds tucked
into the middle of an
otherwise unusable
shot.
• In Final Cut Pro, you
can identify a range of
material within a clip,
and then apply a
keyword to that range.
Mark a Part

41. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
In the Library, select the Delicious Peace Event.
Click the List View button, and then select the rooster beans
clip.

42. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
Add some new Keywords:
In the Keyword Editor, select
Coffee and delete.
Type SFX, and press Return.
In the second shortcut field,
delete JJ and type Stills, and
press Return.

43. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
In the rooster beans clip, skim to the point just before the
rooster crows.
Press I to mark a Start point.

44. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
Skim the clips to the end of the rooster crow (@47:44:23) and
press O to mark a Stop point.
Preview this range of the clip by pressing the / key.

45. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
In the Keyword Editor, click
the first shortcut button to
add the SFX keyword to the
clip.

46. Applying a Keyword to
Part of your Clip
Select the SFX Keyword collection in the Event Browser and
play clip.
-- notice how only the rooster portion of the clip is saved

47. Changing Start and End
Points in Event Browser
• Once you have selected
a range within a clip,
it’s easy to change
your Start and End
points
• Skim to new location
and press I or O
again
• Drag the edge of
your selection
Change your
Marks

48. Change your Selection
Select the Delicious Peace event, then select the rooster
beans clip again.
Remove all keywords to this clip, then change the Start and
End points to this clip and reapply the SFX keyword.

49. Who’s Got What?
• As you organize your
clips, you may lose
track of which clips
have been assigned a
keyword and which
ones haven’t
• Using the Browser
Filter can help
Keyword or not?

50. Rating, Sorting &
Searching Clips
• Use a rating system to
narrow down your
content into usable or
unusable categories
• Good clips or ranges
of clips marked as a
Favorite
• Bad stuff marked as
Rejected
Thumbs Up /
Down

51. Rating, Sorting &
Searching Clips
Select the Delicious Peace Event, and click the List View
button.
In the Event Browser, click the Filter pop-up menu and choose
No Ratings or Keywords

52. Selecting a Range as a
Favorite
Skim the Sinina group clip and listen to the first part
of the clip after the camera finds her (@16:01:05)

53. Selecting a Range as a
Favorite
Skim to just before she says, “We used not to” and
mark a Start point (I)
Play until after she says, “Just to greet each other,”
and press O to mark a Stop point.

54. Selecting a Range as a
Favorite
To rate this selection as a
Favorite, in the toolbar,
click the green-starred
Favorite button or press
F.
-- Your selection disappeared from
view.
-- Why? Your browser selection is
‘No Ratings or Keywords.’ Since
you just marked the clip, you can’t
see it until you change the view to
‘All Clips’ or ‘Favorites.’

55. Selecting a Range as a
Favorite
To see the clips that are
tagged as Favorites, from
the Filter pop-up menu,
choose Favorites.
Select your clip and play
it.
-- the clip only contains the
section you highlighted.

56. Rejecting
• Mark a clip or a range
as rejected
• Works like the
Favorite except now
you reject and hide
content you don’t
intend to use
Hide the Junk

57. Sorting
From the Filter pop-up
menu, choose All Clips.
In the search field, enter
peace.
-- only those clips that have peace
in their names or notes will appear
in the list.

58. Rejecting
Select the first clip, JJ on
peace.
Find a starting point just
before he says, “We want
other people..”
Press O to mark all the
material before this point.

59. Rejecting
In the toolbar, click the red
reject (X) button, or press
Delete.
-- in the filmstrip, a red line appears
over the rejected portion of the clip.

60. Hiding Rejected Stuff
From the Filter pop-up menu,
choose Hide Rejected.
Select JJ on Peace and press
the / key to play the clip.
-- now only the part that’s good is
kept.

61. Sorting
From the Filter pop-up menu,
choose All Clips.
In the search field, click the
reset button (X), then select
the grind stone clip.
Play the 2nd half of this clip.
-- she says, “It has a nice smell”
-- let’s keep track of that statement.

62. Sorting
Create a range in the grind
stone clip that includes the
statement, “It has a nice
smell” and mark that selection
as a Favorite.

63. Adding Notes to Clips
• Note the content of an interview
• An idea about how to use a clip in your project
• Attach the portion of voice-over text to the clip or
clips you are considering using at that location
• Include lyric lines in clips for music video
• Perform a text search to instantly bring up these
clips when you are ready to implement your ideas
Little Reminders

64. Sorting
In the Event Browser scroll
right until you find the Notes
column.
Drag this column left so it’s
closer to the Name column.
Add the note ‘Nice Smell’ to
the Favorite

65. Creating Smart Collections
• Search for clips in an
Event using the Filter
window
• Save your search results
as a Smart Collection.
• Smart Collections
update dynamically
when a new clip
matches the Smart
Collection search
criteria
Save your searches

66. Prep for a Smart Collection
Click the Delicious Peace Event.
From the Filter pop-up menu, choose All Clips. If you need
to, clear the search field.
Choose the Filmstrip view.

67. Create a Smart Collection
In the Event Browser, click
the magnifying glass icon to
open the Filter window.
Easy shortcut – Command F
– as in ‘find’

68. The Filter Window
• You can use the results
of the search to create a
Smart Collection based
on your chosen criteria
• You can search by text,
keyword, type of
media, format, and so
on.
How it works

69. Make a Smart Collection
Next to the Text field,
deselect the checkbox to
remove Text as criteria for
this search.
Click the Add Rule (+) pop-
up menu in the upper-right
corner.
From the pop-up menu,
choose Media Type

70. Make a Smart Collection
Within the Media filter rule, click the second pop-up and
choose Stills.
-- FCP found all the still images in this Event without you looking for
them.

71. Make a Smart Collection
In the Filter window, click
New Smart Collection.
-- in the Library, a new purple-
geared Smart Collection appears
named ‘Untitled.’

72. Name the Smart Collection
Highlight the new Smart Collection and name it Stills, and
press Return.

73. Modifying a Smart
Collection
• Open the Smart
Collection in the Event
Library
• Use the Filter window
to add or remove
parameters
• Clips will update as
you make the changes
Add or Remove
Stuff

74. Modify a Smart Collection
In the Event Library, select
the four clips from the Stills
Smart Collection that show
village life, but not animals.
Open the Keyword Editor
(command K) and select the
Village keyword for these
clips.

75. Modify a Smart Collection
In the Event Library, double-
click the Stills Smart
Collection.
In the Filter window, click
the Add Rules pop-up menu,
and choose Keywords.

76. Modify a Smart Collection
In the Keywords area, click
the pop-up menu that has a
checkbox in it, and choose
Uncheck all.
Then select the check box
next to Village to add that
keyword to the search.
-- now only the three village stills
are in the Smart Collection.

77. Little Button
Big Difference
• Decides how to search for clips
All / Any Pop-up
• Only clips that meet all the filter
parameters will be included
All
• Any clip that meets any of the
filter parameters will be included
Any

78. Modify a Smart Collection
In the Filter window, from
the Filter pop-up menu,
choose Any
--Now all the stills return to the
Smart Collection.
Change the Filter pop-up
menu back to All.

79. Shortcuts
• Selects all clipsCommand A
• Show the Filter windowCommand F
• Show/Hide Keyword CollectionCommand K
• Create a new Keyword CollectionCommand Shift K
• Move the selection to the trashCommand Delete

80. Shortcuts
• Set the start point for a selectionI
• Set the end point for a selectionO
• Move the play head to the previous frame
• Move the play head to the next frame
• Play the selectionSlash /

81. Homework Assignment
1. Complete this lesson so you
have all the Keyword
Collections and the Smart
Collection in the Delicious
Peace event.
2. Select the Stills Smart
collection so its contents can
be seen in the Event Browser
3. Double-click the Smart
collection and move the
window just below the Event
Browser’s contents.

82. Homework Assignment
6. Using the Grab application,
select the area of your Event
Library, Event Browser, and
Smart Collection window
7. Save the image to the desktop,
then attach the image to an
email sent to me
(SH-Edsall@wiu.edu)

83. Homework Assignment

84. Lesson 3:
Organizing Clips
in an Event
Apple Pro Training Series
Final Cut Pro X
2nd Edition
Instructor: Sam Edsall