Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 193)

Chapter 14 Capturing Your Footage to Disk 193
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The fastest way to find a media file is to use the corresponding clip in the Browser.
To reveal a clip’s media file in the Finder:
1 Select a clip in the Browser or Timeline
2 Do one of the following:
 Choose View > Reveal in Finder.
 Control-click on the clip and choose Reveal in Finder from the shortcut menu.
Consolidating Media Files to One Folder
If you save a project with a new name part-way through the capture process, media files
captured after the project is renamed are stored in a new folder. For example, suppose
you originally captured some clips in a project called “Hard to Trace,” but at some point
you renamed your project “Hard to Trace Version 2” and then resumed capturing clips. In
this case, clips captured before the project name change are stored here:
/Volumes/Media/Capture Scratch/Hard to Trace/
and clips captured after the name change are stored here:
/Volumes/Media/Capture Scratch/Hard to Trace Version 2/
This can make it difficult to manage your project, especially if you want to copy the
project file and all its corresponding media files to another system. To avoid these
problems, it’s important to pay attention to where your media is stored during capture.
If you want all your media files to reside in one folder, you need to avoid changing the
name of your project. However, it’s common for editors to change project names as
they save versions of their work. At some point, it’s likely that you are going to capture
a media file to a folder where you don’t want it.
To consolidate media files into a single folder immediately after capture:
1 In the Browser, select a clip that corresponds to one of the media files you just captured.
2 Do one of the following:
 Choose View > Reveal in Finder.
 Control-click the clip and choose Reveal in Finder from the shortcut menu.
A Finder window opens with the media file selected.
3 Click the Final Cut Express HD icon in the Dock to switch back to Final Cut Express HD.
4 In the Browser, if it isn’t selected already, select the same clip that corresponds to the
media file you just highlighted in the Finder.