FCP Import window - Thumbnail view

Not much of a question, but a working hack for Thumnail view while importing! My workflow doesn't imply copying and keeping my camera card folder structure and its the only way to have a thumbnail view in FCP import window.


So I had made my peace with it and used the metadata to review my import priorities. But using older footage in new project was a pain, because you want to import only some of the stuff and easily scan it visually.


Turns out, if you create a empty folder named "CLIP" at the root of your footage, FCP detects it as a card structure. Example, I have drone shots organized in different folders, so now I've just put an empty "CLIP" folder in the Drone 1, Drone 2, Drone 3 folders and I magically have thumbnail view in FCP!


With the white bar of already imported clip and the possibility to import with INs and OUTs.

Mac Studio, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 19, 2025 1:11 PM

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Mar 22, 2025 9:02 AM in response to Okiyah

So why does Apple not allow us to select an import range on everything? I never understood that. Super frustrating. I daily have to trim clips in QT Player before importing into FCP. Very frustrating and time wasting.

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FCP Import window - Thumbnail view

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