Graphics Reference
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Figure 4.2
The Clip Appearance panel.
Media can be grouped and sorted in the Event Browser just as in the Event Library. To group clips in the Event
Browser, click the gear button in the Toolbar, choose Group Clips By, and select an item from the menu. You
also can simply select View
⇒
Event Browser
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Group Clips By, and select an item from the menu.
Final Cut Pro provides many ways to group your media, including by creation date, duration, and file-type. The
grouping that you select depends on the media that you need to access at a given moment. If you're interested
only in footage shot on a certain day, for example, grouping the media by Content Created organizes the clips
by the dates on which they were recorded, allowing you to access the day's filming that you require. If you want
to separate your video clips from the audio files, grouping by File Type divides the media into different file-type
categories. When a grouping is selected, it displays as a header in the Event Browser; clicking on the header's
disclosure triangle shows or hides the media beneath it. These results display in either ascending or descending
order. Figure 4.3 shows the media in the Event Library grouped by duration. The three headers organize the
clips by their length, displaying the number of files that they contain in brackets. The third group in this ex-
ample contains six clips ranging from between 10 seconds and 30 seconds in duration.
Figure 4.3
Media grouped by duration in the Event Browser.
