Keyword & Search bug or features ?

Hi,

being new to FCPX 10.2.3 I thought I could use the search elements in the following way.
Recording soccer games (like Karsten) I would like to keyword with eg. goal and name of the kid. Jumping then to the main library (G2 Fussball...) and searching in this scenario for "Emil" should show then all clips for "Emil".

In addition to that trying to erase a wrong keyword "f" deletes the whole keywords and not only "f" which is even more strange or a know bug in Apples high end software product ?

Regards
Tobias

Just select "f" and hit the delete key. Only "f" will be deleted.

If I understand you correctly, "Emil" is a keyword you've applied to a clip. Right?

If that's the case, you cannot "text search" for keywords. You have to do the checkbox search (which I hate). I've been selecting all the clips in a keyword collection and batch adding that same word in the notes filed so I can "text search" the keyword. It's a workaround for sure, until Apple adds the ability to free form text search keywords.

davechap wrote: If I understand you correctly, "Emil" is a keyword you've applied to a clip. Right?

Yes, Emil my son is a keyword


If that's the case, you cannot "text search" for keywords. You have to do the checkbox search (which I hate). I've been selecting all the clips in a keyword collection and batch adding that same word in the notes filed so I can "text search" the keyword. It's a workaround for sure, until Apple adds the ability to free form text search keywords.

Super strange that such basics things don't work. Will try to figure out what you mean with "batch adding". But thanks that it isn't my fault

Thanks for your reply and having a look at my post.

Tobias

Hi T.

… as Dave allready told you - no misbehave, just wrong usage

And that 'box' he's mentioning is a mighty tool, mastermind Simon Ubsdall came up with the idea of a 'SuperSearchField', have a look:

Hi all 3

thanks for replies. Coming from iM that helps to understand how FCPX works. Hopefully I am getting more used to it but already love the keywording function that I missed a couple of years in iM

Have a great weekend and again thanks for looking into my post

Regards
Tobias/Frankfurt a.M.