Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual

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Part XI

Project Management and Settings

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Do one of the following:

 Choose a directory path from the Search Folders pop-up menu, then select the Search

Single Location option to limit where Final Cut Express HD searches for clips’ media files.

 Deselect the Search Single Location option so that all folders in the Search Folders

pop-up menu are searched.

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Do one of the following:

 Click Search to have Final Cut Express HD search for media files automatically.
 Click Locate to manually navigate to the location of the media file.

If you click Search, Final Cut Express HD searches for the media file that corresponds to
the clip highlighted in the Files To Connect area. When Final Cut Express HD discovers a
potential match, the Reconnect dialog appears. If Final Cut Express HD cannot find a
clip’s media file, you hear an alert sound. In this case, you may want to use the Locate
button to manually search for a clip’s media file instead.

Choose an option to

limit which kinds of files

you are allowed to select.

Deselect this option
when reconnecting a
media file whose name
has changed.

Select the file.

Select this option so that additional
clips that need to be reconnected
are automatically reconnected to
media files in this folder.

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