Chapter 3 Organization

In this chapter, we’ll look at working in the Libraries Sidebar and the Browser to organize footage using FCP’s tools for working with metadata, the extra information attached to a piece of media that either comes from the camera itself or that you add to it.

Loading the Media

If you skipped directly to this chapter, you should download the material that we’ll be using later in the chapter from the eResources section at www.routledge.com/products/9781138735842. We’ll be working with the ZIP file called BB2.zip:

  • 1. Download the file and double-click the ZIP file to open it.
  • 2. Drag the BB2 library to your dedicated media drive.
  • 3. Double-click the BB2 library to launch the application.

The library contains two events called ...

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