Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1549)

This chapter covers the following:
• Finding Your Media Files After Capture (p. 1549)
• About the Connections Between Clips and Media Files (p. 1551)
• Renaming Media Files and Clips (p. 1552)
• How the Connection Between Clips and Media Files Can Be Broken (p. 1553)
• Making Clips Offline (p. 1554)
• Reconnecting Clips to Media Files (p. 1556)
• When Final Cut Pro Reconnects Your Clips (p. 1563)
• Reconnecting Media Files Automatically (p. 1564)
Whenever a clip’s media file is modified outside of Final Cut Pro, the connection between
the clip and the media file breaks. You can easily reconnect clips and media files whenever
you need to.
Finding Your Media Files After Capture
The most common question editors have after capturing is, Where did my media files
go? Knowing what directory Final Cut Pro stores captured media files in and being able
to quickly navigate the Mac OS X file hierarchy are two of the most important aspects of
being a successful editor.
Where Are Captured Media Files Stored?
To determine where your media files are stored, you should first check the Scratch Disks
tab of the System Settings window. In the Scratch Disks tab, the folder with the Video
Capture column selected is the folder that Final Cut Pro captures media to. However,
Final Cut Pro does not store media files directly in that folder. Instead, each time you
choose a new folder for video capture, Final Cut Pro creates several folders within that
folder:
• Capture Scratch
• Render Files
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