Rating Clips

You can rate different clips on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 is the highest (or best) and 1 is the lowest (or worst). Clip rating is useful for identifying which takes (clips) you like the most when compositing playlists. You can display or hide the clip rating in clips to facilitate track compositing or regular editing. You can also show or hide Playlist lanes based on the ratings of clips in the playlist (see Filtering Lanes).

To rate a clip:

1 Select the clip.

2 Do one of the following:

Choose Clip > Rating, and select a ranking of 1 to 5.

– or – 

Right-click the clip, choose Rate, and select a ranking of 1 to 5.

You can rate selected clips during playback by pressing Control+Alt+Start (Windows) or Command+Option+Control (Mac) and then typing the rating number (1–5) on the numeric keypad.

To display ratings in clips:

Select View > Clip > Rating.

 

Clip with Rating shown

To hide ratings in clips:

Deselect View > Clip > Rating.