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Using the Finder for easy organization

Using the Finder for easy organization - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Weekly

Using the Finder for easy organization

- [Nick] Hi, welcome to Final Cut Pro X Weekly. I'm Nick. And Jeff's not here this week. We're going to talk about using the Finder for easy organization, or making the Finder work for you this week. Some of our key topics include previewing clips with the Finder. We're going to add some color tags and info tags to our clips to better have them organized. We're going to take a look at an application called Automator and how we might be able to use it for renaming or adding data to our clips at the Finder level. And last, but not least, how we can use the information that we entered at the Finder level inside of Finder Cut Pro X. So I'm going to close out of here and head to my Finder. And on my desktop I have a folder here called Finder Organize, and within it two folders I created for some of my Northern Lights footage from Finland, Iceland, and Norway. And some footage of waterfalls. Now, one thing that's great about the Finder level, especially if you have MP4s or MOV files…

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