Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1584)

Stage 2: Choosing Options in the Media Manager Window
Once you’ve selected items in your project, open the Media Manager window and choose
options for processing your media. You can select whether clips, sequences, and so on
are duplicated into a new project, and how media is processed (moved, copied,
recompressed, deleted, and so on). Some options are unavailable, or permanently selected,
depending on what other options are selected. You can also specify a destination for
your new media files to be stored.
Stage 3: Starting the Media Management Process
After specifying your options, click OK in the Media Manager window. Final Cut Pro displays
a warning message before it performs any operation that cannot be undone. A progress
bar shows you the status of the operations as they’re performed.
Using the Media Manager
Before opening the Media Manager, you must select the items in your project that you
want to process. The Media Manager can process items for an entire project, one or more
sequences, one or more clips, or one or more clip items in a sequence.
To use the Media Manager
1 Select the items in your project that you want to process.
• To operate on your entire project: Select your project’s tab in the Browser, then press
Command-A to select every clip, sequence, and bin in your project.
Note: If no items are selected in the Browser and the Browser is the active window,
Final Cut Pro processes all the items in the current tab. This may be a bin or an entire
project.
• To operate on one or more sequences: In the Browser, select the sequences you want to
process. If the Timeline is the active window, the sequence tab that is currently selected
is the one operated upon.
• To operate on one or more clips: Select one or more clips in the Browser.
• To operate on one or more clip items in a sequence: Clip items are individual clip items
placed on tracks in a sequence. You can use one of the selection tools to select a range
of clip items to operate on.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose File > Media Manager.
• Control-click one of the selected items, then choose Media Manager from the shortcut
menu.
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