Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 52)

Chapter 5 Organize your media 52
Organize events
Create a new event
After importing your source media files into Final Cut Pro, you may find that you need to create
additional events to organize your media. For example, after importing media shot for a specific
client, you may decide to split the media into events defined by the location the media was shot
in; or split the media by the time of day it was shot, such as morning, afternoon, and evening.
Create a new event in the Event Library
1 If you don’t see the Event Library, click the Event Library button at the bottom-left corner of the
Event Browser.
2 Choose File > New Event (or press Option-N).
A new event appears in the Event Library.
3 Type a name for the event and press Return.
4 Move clips from other events into the new event, as necessary.
Rename an event
Change an event’s name
As your project evolves, you may find that you want to rename an event so that it more
accurately reflects the clips it contains.
1 In the Event Library, select the event whose name you want to change.
2 Do one of the following:
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Click the event’s name and type a new name.
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Press Return and type a new name.
Important: Renaming an event also renames the event’s folder on the hard disk where your
source media is located.