Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1541)

Capturing or Recompressing Media to an OfflineRT Format
Once you’ve selected the appropriate Easy Setup, you can capture OfflineRT clips using
your camcorder or deck. For more information about capturing, see
“Capturing Video
from Tape.”
When your system is set up correctly, you can log and capture using device control as
usual. During capturing, video is transcoded from its original format to the OfflineRT format
and written to your scratch disk.
Alternatively, you can capture your footage at full quality and full resolution and then
transcode, or recompress it, to the appropriate OfflineRT format using the Media Manager.
For more information, see
“Example: Recompressing Media Files for Editing on a Portable
Computer.”
Editing with Low-Resolution OfflineRT Media Files
You edit your OfflineRT sequence just as you would if you had ingested your footage at
full quality and full resolution.
Using Full-Resolution Graphics in a Low-Resolution, OfflineRT Sequence
Even though your OfflineRT sequence is set to small image dimensions, as you edit, you
can import and use your full-resolution still graphics in your low-resolution project.
Therefore, it’s not necessary to create your graphics with two different dimensions for
offline and online editing.
When you edit graphics into your sequence that are larger than that sequence’s frame
size, Final Cut Pro automatically resizes them to fit. For example, while working at offline
resolution, your sequence frame size is 320 x 240. If you edit in a still graphic that was
created with a frame size of 720 x 480, Final Cut Pro sets the Scale property of this graphic
(shown in the Motion tab of the Viewer) to 50 percent to fit the sequence’s 320 x 240 frame
size. Generators used in your sequence always inherit the dimensions of the sequence
they are in.
When you create your full-resolution sequence for online editing, the dimensions of your
graphics and generators are automatically set to the proper dimensions.
Reingesting Media at Full Quality and Full Resolution
Once you’ve finished editing your project, you use the “Create offline” option in the Media
Manager to create a duplicate of your edited sequence using an online-quality sequence
preset. The Media Manager is convenient because it not only creates a duplicate sequence
with new settings, but every clip in the sequence is also set to the the new settings.
Note: The Media Manager adjusts the dimensions and scale of any graphics or Final Cut Pro
generators you used to match the new sequence settings.
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