Create your first folder

For example, you might want to keep a project’s dialogue footage separate from the cutaway shots you’ll use between takes.

1. Select one of the cutaway shots.
2. Press the unused 1 key.
3. The Folders panel opens. Name the new folder Cutaways and press Enter. The clip is added to this folder, the panel closes, and you continue culling.
4. When you see another clip for this group, just press 1 to add it to the same folder.
5. Select a clip with dialogue and press the unused 2 key.
6. This time, name the folder Interviews. You can now quickly add clips to this folder with 2.

The 1–9 keys are folder shortcuts. If you’ve assigned a folder to a number, it adds the selected clip to that folder. Press an unused number to create a new folder.

You can create a folder with a number key only in the main view. Pressing an unused number while video preview is open won’t create a folder. You can close preview or open a folder from the Folders panel.

When you add a clip to a folder in the main view, you move to the next clip while culling. For example, pressing 1 twice in a row in the queued group adds two different clips to the same folder. But if you opened the video in preview, the same clip stays open when you press a number key. This lets you add the clip to other folders too, if you like.

Other ways to create a folder:

• Right-click a clip and choose New folder….
• When you drag a clip, if the folder panel is closed, 1–9 numbered slots appear in the left tool rail. Drop the clip in an empty slot to create a new folder. If the panel is already open, you’ll see Drop here: new folder on the empty row.
• Click the row that says empty in the Folders panel. Merceq asks you to name the folder.
• You can also use + New folder… in the Folders panel.