Apple Final Cut Express 4 User Manual download pdf (Page 69)

Chapter 5

Browser Basics

Renaming Clips, Sequences, and Bins

You can rename items within Final Cut Express. Renaming clips does not change the

names of media files on your disk.

To rename clips, sequences, and bins within Final Cut Express:

Select the clip, sequence, or bin.

Once the item is selected, click the item’s name, type a new name, then press Return

or Enter.

Renaming a clip automatically renames all affiliated clips in the current project, because

there is only a single Name property shared between a master clip and all of its affiliate

clips. This affects all clips in the Browser and in all sequences within your project. For

more information on master and affiliate clips, see Chapter 60, “Working with

Master and Affiliate Clips,” on page 943.

Note:

Master-affiliate clip relationships exist only within a project, not across

multiple projects.

Using Columns in the Browser

In list view, the Browser’s scrollable columns provide information about your clips and

their associated media files.

The Browser can display many columns of information at once. You can customize the

Browser to display only the columns you want, as well as rearrange columns and change

their width. The Name column cannot be hidden, and always appears at the far left.

Information in Browser columns is based on the following:

The item properties of a clip

The clip settings you selected when your clips were captured

A clip’s media file properties such as image dimensions and frame rate

The sequence settings of an individual sequence (the selected sequence preset)

You can change properties in some columns directly in the Browser by clicking or

Control-clicking within the column, and then choosing an option from the shortcut menu.

You can also modify these properties in the Item Properties window for a clip. For more

information, see Chapter 21, “Working with Projects, Clips, and Sequences,” on page 289.

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Tip:

If a field in the Browser contains more text than fits within the field or column, you

view the complete information by moving the pointer over the field and then waiting

for several seconds. A tooltip appears with the full text of the entry.

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