favorites vs keywords - or both?

I saw a tutorial recently that promoted using the favorites feature as a way of adding sub clips to a project. I had the impression that key words did away with the need for sub clips. It strikes me as a work around to use favorites in this way. Wouldn't identifying every clip using favorites as well as key words create a lot of clutter. Almost too many options. How are you guys using the favorites feature?

Use the tools as they work for you.

Keywords helps us organize clips that share something in common into groups quickly and easily. We can then access clips by that metadata (keyword/s) quickly and easily, like Bins do in other NLEs, but faster and easier.

Once I have that organization done, I can go to a Keyword Collection and see all my clips there that pertain to that group. I still may have a lot of clips to sort through, and find the useful parts of.

First, I can mark a whole clips as Favorite, Untagged, or Rejected. Then I can set the Browser Filter menu in the top left to show only my favorites, or only my rejected, or those not tagged or keyworded, etc.

I can also set the useable segments of clips with a range and mark as a favorite. As long as they don't overlap, I can set more than one favorite range in a single clip. What happens now if I set the Browser Filter menu to show only Favorites? I see only the segments of clips that are marked as favorites, just like sub-clips. When I look at them in the viewer, all I get physically to work with is that segment marked as a favorite. Just like sub-clips, but easier and faster.

There's no reason to get rid of the sub-clip concept, it is actually very vital to editing. We just have faster, easier tools to do it with now.

Can you make sub-clips with Keywords? Yes, you can. But why would you do that? Perhaps I need a "group" of specific sub-clips I can get to in my Event Library. Then, I'd use keyword ranges.

They're very flexible tools, and you can customize how you use them in your workflow. There's no hard, fast rules about it, even though many of us are finding good "rules of thumb".

Just pre-plan your workflow before you start your project, think clearly while the project is ongoing, and design a workflow and media management system that lends itself to your specific project.

This point is, if I have 1000 clips in one Event, THAT is clutter, I have to scroll through them all, take hours of searching to find the useful things I need to tell my story.

Keyword collections (be they whole clips or clip ranges), Favorite/Rejected tags (be they whole clips or clip ranges), or Roles, help us organize fast, easy, efficiently so that we spend less time searching for what we need, and more time telling a story.

Keywords do NOT do away with the need for sub-clips. They're just another way we can mark them. We need sub-clips very, very much in editing. You'd never use a favorite and a keyword to mark the same clip/range for the same purpose.