Add keywords to clips – Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) User Manual
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Chapter 5
Organize your media
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Add keywords to clips
You can apply keywords to your clips to help you quickly locate the clips you need to compose
your movie. After you apply a keyword to a clip or clip range, the clip or range is marked with
a blue line in the Event Browser. (Clips that have analysis keywords, which are automatically
applied after certain types of analysis, are marked with a purple line. For more information, see
on page 45.)
Additionally, when a keyword is applied to a clip or clip range, a Keyword Collection appears in
the Event Library. A Keyword Collection contains pointers (aliases) to clips tagged with a specific
keyword. For example, if you apply the keyword “Nicholas” to all clips containing Nicholas, you
can then select the Nicholas Keyword Collection in the Event Library to view all clips containing
the “Nicholas” keyword in the Event Browser.
Keyword
Collections
A blue line indicates that
a clip has keywords.
You can apply one or more keywords to a range within a clip, a whole clip, or a group of clips in
an event.
Apply keywords using the Keyword Editor
1
In the Event Browser, select a range or one or more clips to which you want to add keywords.
2
To open the Keyword Editor, click the Keywords button in the toolbar.
3
At the top of the Keyword Editor, type the keyword or keyword phrase you want to apply to the
selection, and press Return.
Type a keyword
or keyword phrase,
and press Return.