Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 372)

• Numbered image sequences: Numbered image sequences allow you to store a movie’s
frames as individual graphics files. Compositing applications, such as Shake, and film
transfer equipment often use this format. Final Cut Pro does not convert image
sequences into a single clip, but instead creates individual clips for each graphics file
you import.
How Is Importing Different from Capturing?
Importing is different from capturing in the following ways:
• Capturing: When you capture, you transfer and often convert footage from an external
video or audio device to your scratch disk.
• Importing: You import files when they are already stored on your scratch disk. Importing
media files creates clips in your project; these clips refer back to the media files on disk.
Since capturing creates media files, you can always import captured media files into your
project at any time.
Importing Media Files
You can import single files, a folder, or a group of folders. If you import a group of folders
that contain folders inside one another, Final Cut Pro imports all files in each folder and
subfolder that are in formats it recognizes; incompatible file types are ignored.
Folders imported into your project appear as bins in the Browser. If you import a group
of folders, Final Cut Pro creates bins and organizes the files in the same hierarchy as on
your hard disk. However, unlike with clips and media files, there is no further relationship
between bins and folders after you import. Changing the name or location of a bin in
your project has no effect on the folders in the Finder, and vice versa.
To import a file or folder
1 In the Browser, select a project or bin where you want to store your imported clips.
• To import files or folders into the main, or root, level of a project: Click that project’s tab.
• To import files into a bin within a project: Double-click the bin. The bin opens in a separate
window.
372 Chapter 26 Importing Media Files into Your Project