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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What’s new in Final Cut Pro?
- Chapter 2: Final Cut Pro basics
- Chapter 3: Import media
- Chapter 4: Analyze media
- Chapter 5: Organize your media
- Chapter 6: Play back and skim media
- Chapter 7: Create and manage projects
- Chapter 8: Edit your project
- Editing overview
- Select clips and ranges
- Add and remove clips
- Adding clips overview
- Drag clips to the Timeline
- Append clips to your project
- Insert clips in your project
- Connect clips to add cutaway shots, titles, and synchronized sound effects
- Overwrite parts of your project
- Replace a clip in your project with another clip
- Add and edit still images
- Add clips using video-only or audio-only mode
- Remove clips from your project
- Solo, disable, and enable clips
- Find a Timeline clip’s source clip
- Arrange clips in the Timeline
- Cut and trim clips
- View and navigate
- Add and remove markers
- Correct excessive shake and rolling shutter issues
- Chapter 9: Add and adjust audio
- Chapter 10: Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators
- Transitions, titles, effects, and generators overview
- Add and adjust transitions
- Transitions overview
- How transitions are created
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Add transitions to your project
- Delete transitions from your project
- Adjust transitions in the Timeline
- Adjust transitions in the Transition inspector and Viewer
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Create specialized versions of transitions in Motion
- Add and adjust titles
- Adjust built-in effects
- Add and adjust clip effects
- Add generators
- Use onscreen controls
- Use the Video Animation Editor
- Chapter 11: Advanced editing
- Group clips with compound clips
- Add storylines
- Fine-tune edits with the Precision Editor
- Create split edits
- Make three-point edits
- Try out clips using auditions
- Retime clips to create speed effects
- Edit with mixed-format media
- Use roles to manage clips
- Use XML to transfer projects and Events
- Edit with multicam clips
- Multicam editing overview
- Multicam editing workflow
- Import media for a multicam edit
- Assign camera names and multicam angles
- Create multicam clips in the Event Browser
- Cut and switch angles in the Angle Viewer
- Sync and adjust angles and clips in the Angle Editor
- Edit multicam clips in the Timeline and the Inspector
- Multicam editing tips and tricks
- Chapter 12: Keying and compositing
- Chapter 13: Color correction
- Chapter 14: Share your project
- Chapter 15: Manage media files
- Chapter 16: Preferences and metadata
- Chapter 17: Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Chapter 18: Glossary
Chapter 16 Preferences and metadata 503
View a clip’s metadata
1 Select a clip.
2 To open the Info inspector, click the Inspector button in the toolbar (shown below),
and click the Info button at the top of the pane that appears.
Metadata for the selected clip or group of clips is displayed in elds in the
Info inspector.
Switch metadata views in the Info inspector
You can change the metadata elds shown in the Info inspector by choosing a
dierent metadata view from the Metadata View pop-up menu.
1 Select a clip.
2 Open the Info inspector.
3 Choose a metadata view from the Metadata View pop-up menu.
Metadata View pop-up menu
Note: If you create custom metadata views, they also appear in the pop-up menu.
Change a clip’s metadata
1 Select a clip.
2 Open the Info inspector.
3 In the Metadata View pop-up menu, choose a metadata view that contains elds for
the metadata you want to change.
4 Do either of the following:
Click in a text eld to make it active, and enter the text you want to include. Â
Note: If you can’t click in a text eld, the eld can’t be edited. Some EXIF metadata
elds, for example, can’t be edited.
Choose an option from the pop-up menu for the metadata you want to change. Â
Note: You can also change the Content Created date and time of your source clips in
the Event Browser. Just select one or more clips and choose Modify > Adjust Content
Created Date and Time.