The clip log
The list beside the video: what each row tells you, how to move through it, and the gestures that are not written anywhere on screen.
On this page
The clip log is the list beside the video. Every clip you tag lands there in match order, and it is where most of the work after tagging happens — reviewing, qualifying, picking clips for a collection, exporting. This page is about the list itself. Tagging is covered in decks, and the pipeline stage each clip carries in clip status.
What a row tells you
Left to right: a coloured rule for the tag, the timecode, the clip's name, then its marks and how long it runs.
The coloured rule is the clip's identity, and it changes shape to say three different things:
- Filled — the ordinary case: this is the tag's colour.
- Outlined — the tag exists in your catalogue but is not on the deck you are using. The clip is fine; you just cannot tag another one like it without adding that tag back.
- A play tip — this is the clip on stage. It turns the same accent as the playhead while the video is actually inside the clip's window.
On a manually ordered list, such as a collection, the drag handle takes that slot and carries the colour instead. One identity mark per row, always in the same place.
Moving through the list
Clicking a row plays it. Beyond that:
| Gesture | What it does |
|---|---|
] and [ | Next and previous clip |
Hold ] or [ | Run through the list, about nine clips a second |
0 | Replay the clip from its start |
| Click the clip you are on | Open its details; click again to close |
| Arrow keys | Move between rows without changing what is playing |
Enter | Play the focused row, or open the details of the one you are on |
| Right-click | The row's menu, with everything the row can do |
Holding a bracket is worth knowing. Crossing a half's worth of clips one keypress at a time is slow, so holding either bracket runs through them. The video goes quiet while you travel and picks up again when you let go, exactly as it was: playing if it was playing, still if you had paused it on purpose. A note over the top of the list says so while it is happening.
Arrow keys and the brackets are deliberately different. The arrows move a cursor; the brackets move what is playing. That is why browsing down with the arrows no longer drags the list back when the video moves on — the list waits a moment before following again.
Selecting more than one
Selection is how you act on several clips at once: send them to a collection, set a status, export, delete.
- ⌘ or Ctrl click adds a clip to the selection without playing it.
- ⇧ click takes everything between the last clip you picked and this one.
- ⌘A takes everything the current filters leave visible.
- Esc clears the selection.
The tick boxes only appear once a selection exists, or on the row you are pointing at. A list of tick boxes says the list is a form to fill in, and it is not — it is a list to watch.
Whatever a filter is hiding is never part of a selection, so a bulk delete can only ever reach clips you can see.
Details, without losing your place
Every clip carries more than fits on its row: the exact in and out points, the players involved, qualifiers, the zone, telestrations, notes. Clicking the clip you are already on opens all of it underneath, and it stays open as you move from clip to clip — so qualifying twenty clips in a row takes one click, not twenty.
The panel follows whichever clip is current. While you are running through the list with a held bracket it steps aside and lands once, on the clip you stop at.
Filtering, and why the list can look empty
The chips above the list filter by tag. The funnel button opens the rest: marks, status, zone, clips with telestrations, notes or qualifiers, and a search on the clip's name.
Whatever is on shows as a row of chips under the header, each removable on its own. That row exists because a filtered list and an empty one look identical, and the difference matters: if the log says it has nothing to show, it also tells you which filters are responsible and offers one click to clear them.
When the panel is narrow
In the side rail there is no room for everything, so the row answers the three things you scan for: when, what, and how long. The marks and the row's buttons are not dropped — they are in the row's menu, and widening the panel brings them back inline, along with a column for the clip's first note.
What the list looks like
The view options menu, next to the funnel, holds the choices that are yours to keep: compact rows, the tag rail instead of chips, a whole-row colour wash instead of the left rule, and whether a row shows its buttons at rest or keeps them in its menu. Density, the rail and the row buttons are remembered between sessions, so the list opens the way you left it.