Viewing Thumbnails in Browser View in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am going to show you how you can view thumbnails within your browser. Okay, viewing thumbnails with browser view. All right, so we have a thumbnail here to the side but this is in list view. Go ahead and right click that click hide, just kind of hide that. Go up now to view, come down to browser items. Right now it is as list. This is the list view. You now have 3 other choices. You have small icons, medium icons and large icons and that is going to bring up the same type of thumbnail that we brought up in the last clip except for it's not just going to be a column, it is going to be your entire browser window. Now let's click small;. Now you see it will come up as small little icons; really tiny. You can't really tell. The whole point of having a thumbnail is so you don't have to read. You can just look at the picture and instantly know what it is and pull it down. So this being small I really don't see this as useful at all. Go back to view and come back down to browser items, even medium is way too small. This is best viewed at under large icons. You also have to remember that large icons won't be all that effective for you unless you are on a screen that is 17, 20 inches or larger. Ideally 23 inches or larger. So go ahead and click as large icons. Now you see these large icons come up. Now this is fantastic. You can see the clip and you just pull it down right away. Also you notice 2 sequences have become little clips too but that doesn't really matter. This is a really great way of viewing clips and making it easy for you."