View and sort items in Final Cut Pro

In Final Cut Pro, you can display your clips and projects in the browser in two views:

Filmstrip view: Displays the clips in the selected event as a connected series of thumbnail images. Projects appear as thumbnail images with a superimposed clapboard design. Filmstrip view is useful when you want to visually locate your clips and projects.
List view: Displays a list of your clips and projects with associated file and settings information. Use this view when you want to view or sort clips and projects by data such as duration, creation date, rating, keywords, and so on. When you select a clip in list view, a filmstrip for the selected clip appears at the top of the browser. The clip filmstrip is fully interactive, allowing access to start and end points, markers, and keywords.

Switch between filmstrip view and list view

In Final Cut Pro, click the List View button or the Filmstrip View button in the top-right corner of the browser.

With the Final Cut Pro browser in list view, do any of the following:

Choose what type of information is displayed: Control-click a column heading in the browser, then choose a type of information to display.
Rearrange columns: Drag a column heading to move the column to a new position.
Sort clips by a category: Click a column heading to sort clips by that category.
View an item’s keywords or rating: Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the clip’s name.
If a disclosure triangle appears to the left of a clip in list view, it means a keyword, rating, or both have been applied to that item.

In Final Cut Pro, you can sort clips and projects in the browser into an order that makes it easier to visually locate them.

In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event whose items you want to sort.
Click the Clip Appearance button above the browser, then do any of the following:
- Group clips by category: Click the Group By pop-up menu and choose a category. To set the sort order, click the pop-up menu again and choose either Ascending or Descending.
- Set the sort order of the clips and projects in the event without grouping them: Click the Sort By pop-up menu and choose a category.

Note: You can group clips and set their sort order (arrangement) independently.

You can reset the browser sort order to its default state.

In the Libraries sidebar in Final Cut Pro, select the event that contains the items whose sort order you want to reset.
Click the Clip Appearance button above the browser.
Click the Group By pop-up menu and choose Ascending, then click the pop-up menu again and choose None.

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