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256 Part V Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
Options for Defining the Scope of a Search
When you are searching for clips, you may sometimes want to search within a single
bin, while other times you may need to search every open project. The Find window
allows you to define the scope of your search and specify search criteria.
 Search: Choose an option from this pop-up menu to specify which open projects or
folders you want to search—All Open Projects, the current open project, the Effects
tab, or a single bin.
Note: You can only search a single bin if the bin is the frontmost window. Since the
Find Results window is considered a bin, you can also limit your search within the
Find Results window if it is the active window.
 For: Choose an option from the pop-up menu to limit your search.
 All Media: Includes all clips in your project, regardless of whether or not they are
used in a sequence.
 Used or Unused: These two options refer to whether or not clips are used within
sequences in your project. You can also search within specific sequences.
Final Cut Express considers a clip’s media file to be used if it is in a sequence. If you
have used a clip in a sequence, the assumption is that you intend to output the
portion of media file it refers to in your final edit. Any clip not used in a sequence is
considered unused.
 Results: Choose how you want the search results to be shown.
 Replace Find Results: Choose this to clear and replace any previous find results with
new find results.
 Add to Find Results: Choose this to append the results of the current search to the
contents of the Find Results window. This allows you to do several searches and
accrue the results in a single window.
Options for Defining the Criteria of a Search
 More: Click this to refine your search by adding more criteria.
 Less: Click this to remove the last search criteria item.
 Match: You can narrow or broaden your search by using multiple criteria. Choose an
option from the pop-up menu.
 All: Finds clips that match all criteria.
 Any: Finds clips that match any single criterion.
Note: If you are familiar with other database searches, “All” refers to a Boolean “and”
search, and “Any” refers to a Boolean “or” search.
 Omit: Select this option to exclude clips that meet this criterion in your search.
 Property name pop-up menu: This pop-up menu allows you to choose a specific
Browser column or item property to search in.