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Mark: Welcome back to MacBreak Studio, I'm Mark, I'm here with Steve, we're talking about
the new features in the 10.1.2 release and you're going to go over some pretty cool stuff
that happens outside of Final Cut Pro X Steve: Absolutely, in the finder!
Since Mavericks, there's these great Metatools, for organizing your files.
In particular, your media files.
You're going to see how cool this is, you can bring in finder tags into Final Cut Pro
and they'll be organized by key word collections.
Mark: So the finder tags that used in the finder for a variety of things totally unrelated
to editing but you can use them in conjunction with Final Cut Pro.
Steve: It's fantastic Mark: Cool, let's check it out.
Steve: So I'm going to jump out to the finder and here I have a folder called Ripple Underwater,
now I open this up, and I have a number of clips here and they're all related to my favorite
hobby, which is scuba diving!
So I have a lot of clips in here, of fishies, Caribbean, California diving.
Now, I could put these into their own separate folders, and import those folders as key word
collections, but, this is even better.
Because then I don't have to create folders.
It's all about tagging, it's all about the meta-data.
Mark: Because there's been this option for a long time to import folders as key word
collections.
Steve: That's correct.
Mark: So that was a way of organizing your media outside of Final Cut.
This is a better way.
Steve: So, let's say I have some marine life I wanna bring in and I want key word collections
based around marine life from these clips.
I have some fishy clips here, so I'm going to Command click those, oh and I have a sponge
clip and I also have a turtle clip here.
So, I'm going to command click these clips because I want to tag them as marine life.
So I'm going to click this button at the top of the finder window, that's a default button,
it would be the finder window in Mavericks.
Mark: It's the Edit Tags button.
Steve: The Edit Tags button!
If I click this here, the Edit Tag's little window comes up, and I'm just going to add
my own tag.
Mark: Well it looks like you've added a few.
Steve: Well there are previous tags, yes, whenever you add a tag it gets added to the
tag library, which you can then modify and change in the finder preferences.
So I'm going to type out, Marine Life, and hit Return.
So I have a little token there.
Mark: Has that just been assigned?
Steve: It's been assigned to those four clips Mark: Okay
Steve: Now, if I go, Show All, there's actually more tags here that I'm not seeing, it's just
kind of giving me a short list.
Mark: Ah, okay but it shows all the tags you've set up or you've used previously.
Steve: Right, and I can click, Blue, and I've just tagged it with a color.
Mark: Okay.
Steve: Because, well, you'll see why in a minute, I like blue.
So, I've tagged essentially those four clips and you can see they're blue.
Mark: The blue tag actually helps you see which ones you tagged.
Steve: Right, but what's really great in the finder, of course, if you type in marine life,
it should bring up any clip that's tagged.
Mark: Because it's completely searchable in the finder.
In the finder, you can do smart collections, there's basically what you can kind of do
in Final Cut, to find those things.
Steve: It's all about the meta-data.
Alright, so we're going to go back to Final Cut, and in Final Cut, I already have a library
set up, and I have an event.
I want to bring that stuff, those four clips, or the entire folder I'll just import.
A new feature is I can drag straight in to the browser now.
Mark: Okay, so wait a minute, you've been able to drag onto an event, to import rather
than choosing file import, but now you can drag right into the browser.
Alright, let's see how this works.
Steve: Wait, before we do that, we need to check our preferences.
Mark: Oh because we wanna know whats going to happen
Steve: It's very important because I have this library, I don't know if it's set up
as a managed library, I don't know if it's set up as an external media library, and I
need to check that.
Every time you do a drag and drop operation, you need to check your preferences.
Mark: Good idea.
Steve: So I'm going to hit Command-comma bring this up and right at the top here, there's
an option for Copying Files to Storage Location if it's an external folder or to the library.
Mark: Depending what you've set the thing up to be.
Steve: Right, and we've covered that in different MacBreaks.
So I'm just going to choose Leave in Place, but it's very important that you set this
up ahead of time, before you drag your clips.
Mark: So you know what's going to happen.
Is it going to copy to the location you've established, or is it going to leave them
where they are?
Steve: Exactly.
But here's the new thing: it key words from finder tags.
Brand new.
Fantastic.
Like you mentioned, you can do it from folders, but I'm going to use this way more than I'm
going to use folders, because I get tired of making folders.
Tags, to me, are so much faster.
So, I'm going to go ahead and close this, and open the finder window.
What I should have done is had the window set up ahead of time.
So, I'm going to open the window, there it is.
Tab back to Final Cut, tab back to Finder, so I can see both windows at the same time.
So, what I want to do is grab all these clips or select all of them, and then drag them
right into the browser.
Mark: That is easier to target this big thing than to go over this tiny little event over
there.
Steve: Right, but look at the icon, I haven't released mine yet..
Mark: Oh the little hooked arrow, that's telling you, "Hey you have leave in place selected."
So it's letting you know.
Steve: You're going to make sym clips, in your library!
Mark: Okay, if you had selected, Copy to storage location, that would be a big plus symbol,
right?
Steve: I believe so.
I don't think I can override it, it's just showing you that I'm doing a leave in place.
Mark: I remember when we talked about it before and you did it the other way, I saw a big
plus symbol.
Cool, okay so let's see what happens.
Steve: I have short term memory loss, whatever you say!
So I'm going to release the mouse, there are all my clips.
They're great, it happens instantaneously because I'm not copying media.
So now, check it out, if I open up, or spill open this little triangle, there's this closure
triangle, check it out!
There's my marine life, all four clips based on the tags in the finder!
Mark: Fantastic.
Steve: Blue is going to have the exact same clips because I tagged them with the same
thing.
Mark: But the point is, you can use multiple tags on the same clip, which is something
you can't do with folders.
That's really cool, because you can have all kind of mix, the same way Final Cut works
is that database, the finder does that now.
Steve: That's right, in fact, what's great, and you mentioned this earlier, a key benefit
is you can have someone who doesn't even have Final Cut on their Mac going through and tagging
things ahead of time, so when you import the clips, they're already collated.
Mark: So anybody could be an assistant editor and and set this stuff up for you without
even using Final Cut?
Steve: Yeah, you can just use tags, it's great.
They could do it with folders before, but tags are just so much easier.
Mark: You just saved certain assistant editor three hundred dollars.
Steve: Exactly!
So, since we're talking about importing, there's one little thing I want to show you, that
is new.
A little thing, and again, it's always about enhancements that make our life easier, make
things faster.
You know, make our lives better, so we can go do other things besides sit in front of
a computer.
So, what I wanna do is select the event, and go ahead and click the little import button.
I have my iPhone connected, and I deliberately chose my iPhone because I have thousands of
photos and videos..
Mark: That you have yet to import.
Steve: Right, so there it is, Steve's iPhone, and I selected it right there, in the import
window.
You'll notice there's no pop up here.
By the way, it says videos, photos, or all clips, so I can now look at just videos, just
photos or clips, and this is huge because the fault, previous to this version was all
clips.
Mark: So if you're just looking for a video and you have thousands of photographs, it
can be hard to find that video.
Steve: I typically, when I work with the import window, I really do like to have it in thumbnail
view so I can actually see what's here and I can actually skim through and see these
clips.
So there's only videos, if I go to photos, there they are, there's all my photos, lot's
of photos.
It's great!
Mark: Simple thing, but a nice filtering option to help you more easily sift through a lot
of media.
Steve: That was in iMovie first.
Mark: It's true, and it made it's way up to the professional application
Steve: It sure did.
So that's all I have to say about importing enhancements.
Mark: Beautiful, those are great tips, very useful, great ways to get organized, hopefully
it helps you, and makes your work go better and faster.
Thank you Steve.
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