How to locate clip within timeline containing specific filter

Hi,
I would like to locate in my timeline all the clips that contain a specific filter (in this particular occasion, MERCALI filter). But my timeline contains hundreds of clips. How do I locate the ones I am looking for without having to click on each and everyone of the cut clips?
Thank you.

That just isn't something that anyone asked for. Or not enough people, in any case.
We have asked for a way to eliminate all filters.
After Effects has a hotkey to show all modified parameters, so Premiere Pro could certainly have it. Put in a feature request.

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I don't agree with you here. Resolve is much easier to use - I don't have to try and get into the heads of the developers and its is easy to see how my material slots into the editor.
I am still trying to get my head around the way FCP organises the material. Events/Projects? What are they thinking here? How does this fit into a wedding video? I can create meaningful "events" (wedding/photoshoot/reception) etc but why would I?. Is a "project" just a timeline - a "sequence" in normal film editors? Why not call it that then? I cannot figure out what kind of environment Apple were imagining when they came up with this way of organising things? They must have had some kind of job in mind where events and projects make sense. The manual is silent on where the clips actually go - are they organised within events? within projects" or within both? Whatever it is, it might be easier to understand what FCP is doing if Apple explained what this structure means and why they have adopted it. I am left to guess.
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I don't want to see my footage an in iMovie layout with no tracks either. Especially my audio tracks, so I always have to unpack them. I miss the little buttons to turn off different audio tracks - yes I know there is another way to do this, but its not obvious (as with everything else in this software) and means fumbling around in the interface to find how to do it - and its slower if you want to flip between audio tracks to decide which one to use at any given point. Its the same with synchronising clips. You expect to select the clip, right click and get a sync option. But its in a separate menu under Clip. Why? If you want to copy a clip to another library its not under a clip menu - but under the file menu? Why? I think its a terrible mess - and I think that Apple introduced a level of complexity to this interface with little to show for it. I am new to Resolve. It looks complicated with all its colour wheels and stuff, but actually its very intuitive and easy to use. And its very easy to structure clips and sequences without having to spend hours trying to figure out how Apple think you should do things. if you use FCP all the time then fine - you get used to it. But is it truly a better way to work?   I like structure - it helps me to understand my material - but FCP is anti-structure and forces a virtual schema on its users. If you like that, well and good - but it shouldn't be compulsory.
I got my head around using keywords - but I hate it - its just extra work for me and I hate the loss of the direct relationship with my material. Its very hard to see whether I have used all the material or not and how it all fits together. Now I have duplicated stuff everywhere and lots of things missing - but no real organisation. And I have to remember how I keyworded clips to find them - not easy in a big project. And since I have lots of big clips I have to remember not to change the I/O points without first saving the subclip and assigning a keyword. Extra work and easy to stuff up. Its a problem too if you edit a subclass without realising it is just a virtual clip so every instance will be edited. Sometimes thats a good thing, but not always. The issue is that this happens invisibly so you have to be very careful working with these virtual clips. Subclips are safer - you always know whats happening - and that's increasingly difficult when you have lots of subclips which are really the same material but grouped separately.
Its much the same with all Apple's software today - its all written from some other planet. I have had to take out a subscription to Office 365, use Dropbox and oneDrive instead if iCloud and download Resolve to deal with my Blackmagic camera. Its a consumer world at Apple now - and an iMovie view of the world. Apple like to hide half the functionality because they think it makes things look easy. Their manuals are useless and their online Help worse.
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FCP Pro X has some nice new features. But its hard to justify this when everything else is so hard to use. Its like connected tracks. Why is that an improvement? I always start with an audio track from my master camera - because its on tape and runs for the whole take - but its impossible (or very difficult) to do this in FCP Pro X. If I have a jumble of clips and its not clear where they fit, I can't assemble them, in sequence on a separate track - I have to connect them, arbitrarily, to an existing track. And then undo that connection later. I have to rethink my workflow every time to try and fit in with FCP Pro X.
In an earlier life I was a software developer. The golden rule of applications in business was that you built your application to suit the workflow of the user. You could streamline it, but not change the sequence unless the business had made a decision to do that already. I wrote quite a few large applications for various areas of the business - I used them to make sure they worked, and I used the existing workflow. A user could come back from holidays and know immediately how to use the app to do their job. A new user could use the app without weeks of training. Its not hard to write intuitive software - but its impossible if you set out to impose a new workflow or method of organisation on a user.
Apple seem to have missed this altogether. FCP will always be a dog, for that reason alone. I have never used Avid or Premiere Pro, but I imagine no-one else has adopted Apple's upside-down way of doing things. That spells lots of training issues for anyone adopting FCP Pro X. And now since you have to work with colour grading apps, like Resolve, users have to work backwards for Apple and forwards for everyone else, in the same project.
After this project I am going to look seriously at Premiere Pro - but only if I decide I can't use Resolve on its own for everything. I have been an Apple diehard for 12 years after being a Windows guru for a decade before that. I am close to giving up on Apple. Having to buy Office was very difficult - but the Apple apps have been dumbed down (Pages) or were never up to the mark (Numbers). I can't use iCloud because it doesn't support half my material so I have Microsoft oneDrive which also goes against the grain. And I am running Yosemite which means crashes at regular intervals and reboots several times a day.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. I feel you really understood my concern and gave me some good viable options.
There is a lot for me to learn and unlearn. I have been editing for over 16 years and most of that time I was using Edius. This is big paradigm shift coming to the Mac and FCPX.
The idea for me is to edit the video and move the "to be used later clips" into a bin/folder instead of moving them to the location in the timeline were they will be used at that very moment. Its just a preference, I know plenty folks would just move the clip to the location. Edit software is just a tool I have to decide if FCPX is the right tool for me.
Thank you again Fox for your time and understanding of my question.
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