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Mark: Hey welcome back to MacBreak studio, I'm Mark, I'm here with Steve, and we're talking
about Final Cut Pro specifically some new features in 10.1.2, and you're going to go
over something that's been in there a bit, that's been improved, with this media ranges
thing.
Steve: Right, you have a project, like I do here, and here's a Vimeo I posted a few months
ago, we did a trip down to St Croix Mark: With your diving
Steve: With my diving, we shot this beautiful footage on 5D.
There it is, I'm just kind of skimming though it, you can find it up on our Vimeo page,
if you wanna check it out.
Now, I wanna find out, really quickly, which clips I've used, and which one's I haven't
used.
Mark: Frequently, you need to do that.
You're building a project and sometimes you want to use every single clip or you just
want to know, "Hey, is there any really cool shot I've missed," or something like that.
Steve: Well, that happens all the time.
So, I have no idea just by looking at the browser,
Mark: You can't, you can't tell.
Steve: So you have to turn that feature on.
If you go to the View Menu-Show used video ranges.
Mark: Yeah, and that was new in maybe 10.1 I think.
Steve: It was there, it was there in the last version but there's some additional functionality.
Mark: So now the orange bars represent the portion of the clip..
Steve: That's being used in the project I have open.
So here's what's new: The clip filtering up at the top, before it says all clips, you
have a new item down here called Unused.
Mark: Okay, so you couldn't actually filter on it before you could see them, but this
way, unused will show you..
Steve: All the clips that have not yet been used, in any project.
Mark: Okay, and there's no orange bars here because basically they are essentially all
orange bars, I mean this everything that hasn't been used.
Steve: That's right!
Mark: So that's why there's no orange bars.
Steve: In fact, look at this clip, of Zion swimming with his camera, and notice it gets
to a certain point and then there's like a jump cut here, and there's the rest of the
clip.
Mark: Ahh.
Steve: So what happened is, this is one clip..
Mark: That's one clip, being split into two parts,
Steve: It's been split into two parts, Mark: Because you used the middle of it in
your project?
Steve: I used the middle of it in the project.
Mark: Okay, so you can very quickly, in fact, if you're building a project that you know
you're going to want to use every single clip, maybe it's a bunch of photos you have to use.
If you leave a filter on, you just keep adding clips until that browser is empty.
Steve: Yep Mark: That's a really cool thing.
So you can filter unused media.
Okay, great.
Steve: What's also new is that you can now look at used media ranges for Multicam clips,
compound clips, and synchronized clips.
Mark: Ah, okay before they didn't show orange bars at all.
Steve: Before they didn't show.
So, let's just quickly create a compound clip.
So these are all some shots at night some night dive shots.
So, what I'm going to do, I'm just going to select these four clips, press Option-G, I'm
going to call this, Night Dive, and click Okay, and now I have a compound clip that's
now being used called Night Dive.
Mark: Yep Steve: Now to locate this, I'm going to quickly
hit Shift-F Mark: Okay to reveal in browser..
Steve: To reveal in browser.
Notice this is a compound clip, now there's an orange bar going under the entire clip.
Mark: And that's something you would have expected, in a way, to be there before, because
should it involve all clips, but now multicam, synchronized, and compound clips..
Steve: Now can be tagged as used.
Now, where it get's really interesting, is you can create smart collections, based on
used and unused.
Mark: I've been wanting that so much.
Steve: It's really really helpful, and you'll see why.
Before I go any further, I want to set the filtering back to all clips, because that's
going to affect the search criteria.
Mark: Sure Steve: So what I wanna do is create a smart
collection.
So I'm gonna select this event, Control click on it and choose, New Smart Collection.
I'm going to name this, Smart Collection Used.
Hit Return, and I'm gonna edit that smart collection by double clicking.
Mark: Double click it Steve: It'll bring up the, well this little
HUD, filter HUD.
I'm going to add a rule, and we'll go down here and the first thing you'll notice, is
that there's a used media rule.
Mark: That's the new thing, you can actually now use it to build smart collections, I love
it.
Steve: So, we can start there as a basis, and now it's showing me all my used media.
Mark: And the pop-up menu there would let you choose unused if you wanted to so you
could go either way.
Steve: You can go either way, that's what's nice about it.
See, there's all my unused.
Now, there's a reason why I prefer making smart collections as opposed to using the
filter menu.
Here's the first key benefit: It shows you just used portions where, when you're looking
at it in the overall browser, you're seeing the used media in relationship to the entire
clip.
Now you're seeing just the parts that are used.
I really like that.
The other thing about this particular smart collection workflow, is that I don't have
to go up to the filter menu any time I put a clip into the project, it will automatically
show up in this smart collection.
Mark: So you don't have to go back and forth in the filter menu.
Steve: No, in fact, I prefer not to go into the filter menu, that's why I always create
a smart collection for used media.
The other thing is, since it's a smart collection, I can go further with the rules.
Mark: You can add a whole bunch of criteria to that, right?
Steve: Exactly, you'll notice over here there's two key word collections.
A key word collection for all the stuff shot on a Cannon 5D, and all the stuff that was
shot on a Cannon G16, which is one clip here.
But I have key word collections that broke the footage down by the camera type.
Alright, so I wanna go back into this smart collection, and I'm going to add a rule.
I'm going to add a key word rule.
Mark: Okay, rule based on your existing key words
Steve: That's right, and notice here, I only now want to see used clips that were taken
from the 5D, so I can just un-check that box, and now we're looking at just clips that are
there, now if I un-check this one, I'll actually make sure that this is, Oh it is all clips.
The thing is that, I never used that clip.
Mark: You never used that media, that's what I said.
Steve: So it's unused, now it shows up.
That clip was never used.
Mark: In this project, yeah.
Steve: So, it's nice you can come into this filter window and change the parameters, just
like I'm doing here.
It's really great because I can then filter by whatever I want.
So, it'll sort first by the used or unused media and then secondarily by how it's key
worded.
I'm going to do one more thing, I made a compound clip earlier, right, so I'm going to go ahead
and add another rule, I'm going to say, Type, and under Type I'm going to say Compound and
I'm going to turn off key words for a second here, because I don't need that in the rules.
So, it's now brought up that one compound clip that was used.
Mark: Okay, all used compound clips are now included.
So that's really cool with like synced clips if you actually had dual system sound and
recorded interviews and you just wanted to see the portions of synced clips that you
used in your project.
You'd see just those sound bites.
Steve: You would see just the sound bites, and I think that is an extremely useful suggestion.
You have a long synchronized clip, maybe ten, twenty, thirty minutes, and you're going to
be using pieces of that throughout there, and instantly you'll be able to see, now with
this, everything you've used.
I think it's fantastic, super useful.
Mark: I might even suggest making two smart collections, a used and unused, so you can
always just click on the one you want, and at a glance, tell what's in your project and
what's not in your project.
Steve: You're right, you can actually make two smart collections.
A used and unused.
In fact, it's easy.
You just select the current smart collection, Command-D, duplicate it, let's just rename
this to, Unused.
Did I spell unused right?
Open it up, and you'll set this to, unused, and of course, I want to go back to key words,
and that's probably how I might set up that smart collection for unused related to that
key word.
So now I have two separate smart collections.
Mark: Fantastic, very, very cool.
Super useful.
So, a great feature that was introduced in an earlier version that's now really been
rounded out, and made complete.
Steve: Yeah, and actually useful.
Mark: Yes, extremely useful.
Okay great.
Steve, thank you.
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