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OS X Finder search secret

OS X Finder search secret - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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OS X Finder search secret

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- [Jeff] This is Final Cut Pro X Weekly, I'm Jeff, no Nick this week. I was having a conversation with Nick, and we were comparing just how we work on our systems, and one of the things that I found that I was doing I discovered many years ago, that OSX has got the ability to save very common searches, and I'm gonna show you a couple a tricks with it. So we're gonna take a look into the Finder's amazing search. I'm gonna show you how to find movies that are greater than a gigabyte as well as finding movies with a specific codec, and you can just see how this could be used, you can use this for finding Final Cut X libraries, for all your stills, this is just a super flexible capability of the Finder. Here in the Finder, you'll see I've got a folder called ProRes media and when I select it, it finds all the ProRes media on my system. I'm gonna show you how to build that and other things like it. So I'm gonna start up by going up to the File menu and saying Find, and you can see I can…

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