An editor's opinion: When to use thumbnails vs. lists

- Investing early in metadata pays off in a big way at the end. Roles are a big part of it. Final Cut does some role classification automatically. I'd like you to see how that works and how to add your own roles. One of my big feelings here that makes Final Cut just crazy powerful are these key words. I suggest that you go ahead and add keywords, especially for your important footage. Don't forget the idea that you can reject footage and you can limit them down to just say favorites, or just say used, or just say things that have no ratings, to quickly sort through your footage.

There's a panic of seeing everything and your instinct might be to go to this sort of, list view. And I think that list view is okay for shorter clips, but for longer clips it can become very difficult, which is why I've begun to prefer thumbnail views at about five seconds. With five seconds or two seconds and Waveforms, I can really see my interview moments and really get an idea of what I'm doing, of what I'm listening to. As I use the scrubber, I'm going to turn on here that shift+s (slowed down speech speeding up to normal) - explain the the equipment and then we can go in for the testing room.

- And it's up to you if you want to use JKML and INO to mark moments, or if you prefer to just use the skimmer. Last I want to remind you just the depth of metadata that's available here to users and how important it is to set them, especially with more complex work. To be able to organize and find the footage, because that's really the most important of editorial, is being able to find the footage when you need it.