About the connection between clips and media files, About the connection between clips and, Media files – Apple Final Cut Pro 7 User Manual

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If you’ve modified the project and haven’t saved it, a message asks if you want to save
changes to the project. Click Yes to save the project.

To switch between several open projects

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In the Browser, click a project’s tab.

To switch between
projects, click a
project’s tab.

To close all open projects

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Close the Browser.

Any project that has its own window (because you dragged the project’s tab out of the
Browser) remains open.

About the Connection Between Clips and Media Files

Clips are not to be confused with the media files you captured to your computer’s hard
disk. A clip refers to a media file on your computer’s hard disk, but the clip is not the
media file itself. Clips usually reference all of the content within a media file, but you can
also create subclips that reference only part of a media file, or merged clips that refer to
several media files at once.

A Final Cut Pro clip refers to its media file via the clip property called Source, which
describes the location of the media file in the form of a directory path. For example, the
directory path for a clip’s media file might look like this:

/MyScratchDisk/Capture Scratch/MyProject/MyMediaFile

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Chapter 3

Understanding Projects, Clips, and Sequences

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