Time-saving Metadata Techniques

Scott Simmons linked to these two tutorials (in his ever enjoyable monthly Linkage post) from Premium Beat (where do they get all this stuff?!) which details how to make the most of custom metadata in Avid to speed up your edit and actually make the most of all this information. Similar things might be possible in FCP7 but these days who has time to log all these details – if you don’t have an assistant to do it for you…