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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 he Browser (p. 69)
 Customizing the Browser Display (p. 70)
Note: For information about organizing footage in the Browser, see Chapter 18,
“Organizing Footage in the Browser,” on page 245.
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—
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.