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New to Final Cut Pro 7 is the ability to tell the difference between a Project Tab, and a Bin Tab in the File Browser. In past versions you couldn't tell the difference by just looking at them. At GeniusDV we always taught our students to name your project in all capital letters, so you could tell the difference. For those of you still using previous versions of Final Cut Pro, this is still a good workflow. Everyone using Final Cut Pro 7, you can now just look at your tabs, and see the Final Cut clapper to know which tabs are Project Tabs, and which ones are Bins.



To turn a Bin into a Tab you need only hold down the Option key, and double click on the Bin. This will add a Bin tab to the File Browser vs opening a new Browser window. Also new to Final Cut Pro 7 is when you color code Bins in the File Browser, and then open them as Tabs, the Tab is colored too.

Within the Final Cut Pro File Browser, there are 36 columns, and another 36 you can add if you desire. Everyone is always tempted to add the thumbnail column, personally I think it adds too much real estate. Often there are a number of columns you never use and could stand to remove from the default view. You can also rearrange the order of the columns to get the columns set the way that best works for you. Once you come up with a column layout you prefer, control/right click at the top of any column to save it. It is a great practice to save it to your iDisk.

Non-destructive simply put means that anything that you do to a file/clip in Final Cut Pro will not affect the source file. For example if I apply a sepia filter to a clip in Final Cut, it will not affect the actual Quicktime file in the Finder. To have the Quicktime file in the Finder affected by the applied filter, you would have to output a new Quicktime movie.

The same non-destructive relationship exists between the clips in the File Browser and the clips in a Sequence. If you apply a filter to a clip in a Sequence it will not affect the source clip in the File Browser. However you can make a change to a clip in the File Browser, those changes will stay with that clip the next time you access it from the File Browser. For example if you had a 15 minute interview clip that you were going to be using numerous clips from, and the clip needed color correction. You would perform the color correction to the clip in the File Browser instead of having to apply it individually to the numerous references in your Sequence. 

Getting clips and or images in the correct order before bringing them into your sequence can be easily achieved using the File Browser in Final Cut Pro. There are a couple of important steps to follow, but if the process is followed correctly the result is efficiency.