Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1521)

This chapter covers the following:
• About Using Master and Affiliate Clips (p. 1521)
• Shared and Unique Clip Properties (p. 1522)
• Working with Master Clips (p. 1525)
• Working with Affiliate Clips (p. 1527)
• Creating Independent Clips (p. 1528)
• Changing Independent Clips to Affiliate Clips (p. 1529)
• Modifying Master-Affiliate Clip Relationships (p. 1530)
• Moving Clips Between Projects (p. 1531)
• How Does Final Cut Pro Identify Matching Clips? (p. 1531)
• Resolving Property Differences Between Matching Clips (p. 1532)
Master-affiliate clip relationships make it easy to manage multiple uses of media files in
your project.
About Using Master and Affiliate Clips
As you edit, you may generate many copies of the same clip. For example, you may use
different segments of the same clip multiple times in one sequence. Or, if you make
multiple versions of a sequence, each sequence may contain a copy of the same clip, but
the duration of each clip may be different.
All of these clip copies refer to the same media file on disk. When it’s time to recapture,
consolidate your media, or move your footage to another system, reducing the number
of clips you need to manage can save a lot of time and disk space.
For example: You have finished editing your project and now you want to recapture the
media files for your sequence clips at high resolution. If you used the same clip many
times in your sequence, it would be a waste of time and disk space to capture the same
media file over and over for each clip copy.
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