Is there a way to tell how many items are in a bin?

Within FCP, is there a way to tell how many items are in a bin? I also want to confirm that you can only duplicate a bin by copy and pasting it.

Thank you

Open the bin. Shift-H to switch the bin to icon view. It'll tell you at the top many items are in the bin.

All the best,

Tom

I don't know of any way to get a count of the number of items in a bin - possibly a dummy batch recapture? I'm not sure why this would be required though, so not very surprised.

And you can just hit option d to duplicate a bin and its contents. Although AFAIK really you're not making new versions, just new copies of links to the same media.

Oh, there you go - icon view. Hate icon view.

Me too. This is about the only thing it's good for.

All the best,

Tom

Me too. This is about the only thing switching to icon view is good for.

All the best,

Tom

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I also want to confirm that you can only duplicate a bin by copy and pasting it.

Nope you can duplicate anything in FCP7 Browser using:

option-d

The option key is labelled "alt"



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it could have been Apple D (Command D) and correlate to the other finder commands (Apple C, apple V etc)
but Apple D was given to De-Select All in early versions of FCP.

after a while De-select All was shifted over to Shift Apple A (from memory)
that was also the year they introduced the mappable keyboard,
so i just mapped it back.

Apple D is still clear so if you prefer, you can map Duplicate to that.

icon view can occasionally be cool for looking at clips,
but bins? only for a clip count.


nick

Eleven years of using Final Cut Pro...Icon View is one of those features I've never used. Not even once, on a pro job or a personal project, small or large. Blows the mind.


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Jude,

I wanted to make sure I didn't miss a clip when syncing up footage, so I wanted to compare the number of clips in the original bin to the synced one.

for many reasons, (and this seems a legitimate one) i prefer to sync my rushes in a timeline.

other reasons are i just don't trust auto syncing by TC.
if i can do it, i will,
but rather than merging in the browser i will do it in a timeline where i can check the sync by eye before i link picture and sound.


nick

Simple stupid solution: select the bin and select Export->XML. The dialog will tell you the number of items. Then press Cancel. This way you can get the count of clips/items for even more than 1 bin.

Andreas