Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1567)

This chapter covers the following:
• What Can You Do with the Media Manager? (p. 1567)
• Selecting Items to Process with the Media Manager (p. 1569)
• Settings and Options in the Media Manager Window (p. 1570)
• How the Media Manager Processes Selected Items (p. 1577)
• Limiting How Much Media Is Copied or Deleted (p. 1580)
• Media File Formats Supported by the Media Manager (p. 1582)
• About Color Space Conversion in the Media Manager (p. 1582)
The Media Manager helps you move, copy, delete, and process your project’s media files,
automatically updating the connections between clips and media files.
What Can You Do with the Media Manager?
The Media Manager can duplicate an existing project, or individual items in the project,
as well as the corresponding media files, or portions of those media files. Final Cut Pro
treats media files and clips independently, so some Media Manager options determine
how clips are modified, duplicated, or reconnected, while other options determine how
media files are processed. Most of the tasks you do in the Media Manager could be
performed manually, but it could be very time-consuming. It’s much more efficient to let
the Media Manager do this work for you.
You can use the Media Manager for the following media management tasks:
• Copy entire projects or items within projects: You can create a new project file that contains
whichever items you select in your original project file, as well as copy all of the
corresponding media files.
• Move all media files to a single folder on your scratch disk: It’s fairly common to capture
media files to more than one folder (or more than one scratch disk) during the course
of a project. You can use the Move option in the Media Manager to consolidate all of
your project’s media files to a single folder on a single scratch disk, as well as to
automatically reconnect all of the clips to their media files in the new location.
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