Reveal clip in Event folder In TIMELINE

Hi
I am using FCP X 10.1, I know I can right click Clips in the timeline and reveal it in the " event browser ",
I am just wondering if there is a way to do it " the other way around " , I want to use any clip in my event browser ,
and reveal it in the timeline ?
Thanks heaps .
Vee

From the browser to the timeline? Afraid not. However, if you want too see the names of clips and their position on the timeline you can open the Timeline Index and click the Clips tab to see that information.
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Final Cut X is an awesome video editing program - great job with all of the updates you've been pushing out!!
There's something that I would love to see in Final Cut Pro X that would enhance the editors ability to organize. I'd love to see timelines in the Event folder - like the title says. I know that the creators of FCPX initially allowed the seperation of Events and Timelines to give editors access to all of their media at all times - and I am thankful that they are continually thinking out of the box to give us this kind of functionality. But after it was released, I'd like to know if editors wound up using that functionality - that's not a rhetorical question, I'd really like to know. Do they take footage from one movie shoot and use it in a different movie? Do they take graphics for one commercial and use it in another? If it's a consumer making a family vacation DVD, do they take shots from one trip and use it in another? I definitely think it was an innovative idea, but it didn't wind up adding functionality that we use very often, and it wound up introducing complexity to the organization process. The way timelines currently work, I have to export the entire sequence - I can't have version 1 of my video at the beginning of the timeline and version 2 at the end. I have to create two, three, four seperate timelines. I can't use keywords to make the different versions. I also can't have 2 different commercials on the same timeline. I would love to one day be able to open up the Event window, choose my event, and see all of my related timelines there, all my footage, all my graphics, and even all my Motion files (because right now, I have to create my Motion files as templates and organize those in a seperate template window.) It would be great to hit a little plus sign in my Event and create another timeline. But right now, I start getting stressed when I have more than 10 projects in Final Cut... and I have about 30 and counting. It also takes 2 to 3 times longer to delete my old projects because they're in three different windows, and I have to remember how I made them. It may sound like a small issue, but I think Final Cut is good at eliminating the small problems in an editor's day to day workflow. It would also consolidate all of the project's data into one folder on my hard drive. And the great part is, editors would still have all of the same functionality that you originally envisioned, being able to access all of their media in any timeline - because the Event window is still there, and as accessible as ever. Allowing timelines to be placed in an Event, along with Motion files, would allow an increased level of organizational optimization that would give editors the freedom to think less about saving their work and more about creating it. Lemme know if you have any thoughts, too!
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