Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1554)

When you play back offline clips, a Media Offline message is displayed until these clips
are either reconnected or recaptured.
This type of message
appears when you play
an offline clip.
Making Clips Offline
You can deliberately make clips in your project offline. This breaks the connection between
a clip in your project and its media file on disk by removing the file path in the clip’s
Source property. Since the file path in a clip’s Source property is shared among affiliated
clips, removing this file path makes all affiliated clips offline at the same time. This is useful
if you want to delete all of your media files in preparation for recapturing at a higher data
rate (for online editing).
In addition to breaking the connection between clips and media files, you can choose to
delete the media files or keep them on your scratch disk. This is useful if you want to
delete all of your media files in preparation for recapturing at a higher data rate, or simply
to get rid of media files you no longer need because you are refining your project.
To make one or more files offline
1 In the Browser or Timeline, select the clips or sequences you want to make offline.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Modify > Make Offline.
• Control-click a selected item and choose Make Offline from the shortcut menu.
1554 Chapter 92 Reconnecting Clips and Offline Media