Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1563)

When Final Cut Pro Reconnects Your Clips
In certain circumstances, Final Cut Pro checks to make sure all of the media files that
correspond to clips in your project have not been modified, and that none of the media
files are missing. Final Cut Pro checks for offline clips in the following situations:
• When you open a project file: If Final Cut Pro detects missing media files that weren’t
missing the last time you saved this project, the Offline Files window appears.
• When you switch from any application to Final Cut Pro: If you switch from your project
in Final Cut Pro to the Finder (or any other application) and modify your media files,
Final Cut Pro detects these media file modifications when you switch back. In this case,
the Offline Files window appears when you switch back to Final Cut Pro.
About the Offline Files Dialog
The Offline Files dialog appears each time you open a project whose clips’ media files
have been modified in any way. This dialog may also appear when you switch to another
application and then return to Final Cut Pro. If any media files are modified, moved, or
deleted during this time, you see the Offline Files dialog.
You can select which
media files to disregard.
The Offline Files dialog shows a summary of how many media files are missing, and what
kind they are.
• Forget Files: When you select one or more types of media in this list, Final Cut Pro
removes (or “forgets”) the file path in each clip’s Source property. Once the Source
property is empty, Final Cut Pro no longer warns you that these clips are offline.
• Media Files: Select this checkbox to clear the Source property of each offline clip. You
can always reconnect your clips to media files later.
• Render Files: Select this checkbox to tell Final Cut Pro to forget all missing render files
in your sequences. If you do not select this option, Final Cut Pro continues to warn
you that sequence render files are missing each time you open the project.
• Reconnect: Click this button to open the Reconnect dialog. This allows you to reconnect
the clips to their media files. For more information, see “Using the Reconnect Files
Dialog.”
1563 Chapter 92 Reconnecting Clips and Offline Media