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书名：Final Cut Pro X Cookbook
作者名：Jason Cox
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更新时间：2021-08-05 18:53:18

Adding keywords to your clips

New to FCPX is a handy keyword system that allows for great cross-referencing and makes clips easy to find, even if you've got hundreds of them or more! Perhaps you are organizing footage you shot at a fair. You have a clip that is a crowd shot, but also features a performance artist. In FCP7, you would have to pick one bin or a folder for a clip to reside. Now, you can apply the keywords crowd and artist to a clip and make it show up in each keyword collection (more information on that in a moment).

How to do it...

Select your event in the Event Library section. You can select either filmstrip view or list view for this process, but usually the more visual filmstrip view works better as you can see many clips at once.
Click on the Keyword Editor button (key icon) in the menu bar, or press Command + K. This brings up the floating Keyword Editor window. Click on the disclosure triangle next to Keyword Shortcuts, as shown in the following screenshot:
Nine empty spaces are now displayed where you can create temporary keyboard shortcuts for often-used keywords.
Highlight one or more clips in your event that you want to add a keyword to. In the following screenshots, images of kids have been selected:
In the text box at the top of Keyword Editor, type in your keyword (in this case, Kids). Hit Return. The keyword has been applied to the selected clips. Take note of a few visual cues on screen—first, the blue line over each clip, which tells us a keyword has been applied to that clip. Second, an indented blue key icon with the name of the keyword appearing underneath our event name in Event Library. By adding a keyword to one or more clips, FCPX automatically creates this keyword collection. Selecting the collection will narrow down your event to only those clips that match that keyword.
To apply an additional keyword to a clip (or clips), simply select the desired clip(s) and repeat step 5 with a new keyword. A new keyword collection will appear underneath your event with the tagged clip(s). Don't worry, adding multiple keywords to a clip doesn't duplicate the clip!

How it works...

Keywords are simply metadata stored by FCPX in the project file itself. The clips themselves do not contain their keyword metadata.

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Using keyboard shortcuts

Notice that the keyword(s) you apply will also appear in the Keyword Shortcuts spaces ^1, ^2, and so on (those funny caret symbols represent the Control keyboard modifier key). You can now zip through clips, highlighting additional ones and simply hit the appropriate keyboard shortcut to apply the keyword, even if the clips are in a different event! Removing a keyword shortcut from the Keyword Editor window does not delete the keyword from tagged clips.

Applying keywords to ranges of clips

Keywords don't have to be applied to whole clips, they can be applied to only ranges of clips as well! Simply select a clip from your Event Browser, select a range (either by dragging across the portion you want or by using I and O to mark a range), and then add your keyword. The blue keyword line will only appear across the range of the clip you have selected, and only that portion of the clip will appear in the keyword collection. While this is great, don't let it confuse you! If you're reviewing a clip and if you find part of the clip seems to be missing, you are probably looking at a selection from the clip in a keyword collection, favorite, or Smart Collection (coming up in future recipes).

Removing keywords from clips

Lastly, to remove a keyword from a clip or clip range, simply select the clip or clips in the Event Library section, open the Keyword Editor window, click on the keyword you want to remove from the clip, and hit Delete. This does not delete the original clip; it only removes the selected clip(s) from the keyword collection! It's just like removing a song from an iTunes playlist or a photo from an iPhoto or Aperture album—the original files still exist! To permanently delete a clip, you would have to delete it from the original event heading.