What clips are in my current project?

I am new to FCP. I have never used an editor that doesn't show me what clips from my bin are currently in my project.
I am about to go on the road to edit a video that has hundreds of clips. I need to know if the clip is already in the project or not. Is there something that tells me the clip in the bin is already being used or not?
Some editors will mark the clip with a check or highlight it somehow. I can not seem to find anything that tells me if the clip is being used in the project. Surely there is something in this program to do this.
Thanks for the help, JT

FCP doesn't do that. Not all NLE's have the same features. There is no way to visually look at the clips in your browser, the way you have it organized, and see what has been used.
One thing you CAN do is make a bin, then select ALL the clips in the sequence, then drag them into that bin. That bin will now contain all the clips used in that sequence. I use this to track footage that are of different codecs or frame rates so that I can recapture them.
Shane

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