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Published inMar 2024
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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Smart Collections

In the context of the real-world town library analogy, Smart Collection categories don’t exist, as they are a digital process. Because Final Cut Pro is a digital application, it can sort items in a selection based on user-defined search attributes.

At the beginning of this chapter, you saw how to add to Favorites. You will have noticed that Favorites is within a folder called Smart Collections in the browser sidebar. There are five Smart Collections within that Smart Collections folder – All Video, Audio Only, Favorites, Projects, and Stills. These are set up by default and have the following functions:

  • All Video shows no audio and no stills (photos), only video clips (including project thumbnails)
  • Audio Only shows only audio
  • Favorites shows the clips you have favorited
  • Projects shows the project thumbnails only
  • Stills shows still images (photos) only
Figure 2.16 – The default contents of Smart Collections

Figure 2.16 – The default contents...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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