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5 Browser Basics
The Browser is where you organize all of the clips in your project.
This chapter covers the following:
 How You Use the Browser (p. 65)
 Learning About the Browser (p. 66)
 Working in the Browser (p. 67)
 Using Columns in the Browser (p. 69)
 Customizing the Browser Display (p. 70)
Note: For information about organizing footage in the Browser, see “Organizing
Footage in the Browser” on page 219.
How You Use the Browser
The Browser is a powerful tool used to organize your project’s clips. In the Browser,
you can sort, rename, and rearrange hundreds of clips in a multitude of ways. You
can also customize how the Browser displays information about clips to suit your
preferred work habits.
You can think of the Browser as a way of viewing and manipulating your clips as if they
were in a database or spreadsheet. Each row represents a clip or sequence, and each
column represents a property field containing information about that clip or sequence.
Note: For more information about the basic organizational elements of
Final Cut Express HD—media files, clips, sequences, bins, and projects—and how
they relate to the Browser, see Chapter 3, “Understanding Projects, Clips, and
Sequences,” on page 39.