Understanding range based keywords

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but if I assign an entire clip a keyword, say John, and then assign a range of that clip with the same keyword, then the clip range will NOT show up as an individual thumbnail in that keyword collection. Only the entire clip with the keyword John will show up, and if I look in list view, I can only then find the little key icon that identifies a range with the same keyword.

This has been my experience, and I want to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong.

So, the moral for me being if you want a clip range to show up in a keyword collection, then make sure you don't tag the entire clip with the same keyword.

Anybody?

Oren

Well, ok. My keywording was, shall we say, a little lazy. So I had a whole scene of a person named John, but then there was a nice close-up where he wasn't speaking, which I also tagged John because I new I would use it. Now, technically yes, I should have tagged it as CU or something else, but if I just had a bin with all the John clips, I could see them at a glance and know which one was the CU, so it seemed unecessary, and I didn't want to go through the effort of making a smart collection with multiple keywords.

So yes, a little lazy, or just trying to be fast. But it looks like FCPX won't show you both clips separately. If there is a range based keyword within a larger clip with the same keyword, FCPX won't separate it out as a separate thumbnail in the collection. Not a bug per say, just something for me to understand.

Oren Hercz
Editor, Post-Production Manager
Journeyman Film Company
http://www.journeymanfilm.com

It also may help you to think about keywords as "differentiators."

That's really their function. It says this range is different than other ranges.

Applying the identical keyword to both a whole clip and a range of the clip, doesn't give the X database anything to separate the range from the whole - so it's reasonable that it doesn't work in a search.

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