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Using the Find tool and PhraseFind to search the audio in a clip

Using the Find tool and PhraseFind to search the audio in a clip - Media Composer Tutorial

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Using the Find tool and PhraseFind to search the audio in a clip

Once you have gone through and organized your entire project, you may still find that it might be difficult to find what you need. However, if you've taken the time up front to intelligently name your clips as well as add custom data to your clips, you will be in luck when you need to find exactly what you are looking for. That's because Media Composer contains a really nice Find tool which has capabilities to search for both the written and spoken word. So you can find the Find tool from the Edit menu or just press Command+F, and up here at the top is where you're going to put in your initial Search criteria. Before you do that, however, you want to look down here in the Bin Index, and if you use PhraseFind, which we'll take a look at in a second, you want to make sure that these are fully green. When you open up a project for the first time, it actually has to go through all of your bins and analyze all of the clips and get it all logged, it might take a little bit of time, same…

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