Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1387)

36 Part I Media and Project Management
Aux TC 1-2 Aux 1 and Aux 2 are additional timecode tracks that can be created
in a QuickTime media file for any clip in your project. These
properties can be useful for synchronizing clips to related media
files without altering the source timecode of your files.
For example, when synchronizing video clips captured from Digital
Betacam with audio clips captured from DAT, the source timecode
of each clip reflects timecode that was captured from each tape.
You can create an Aux timecode track for your audio clips to reflect
the source timecode of the corresponding video clips. By using an
Aux timecode track, you don’t affect the original source timecode
which is important if you ever need to recapture your clips
from tape.
Changes made to the Aux TC 1 and 2 tracks are written to the
timecode tracks in the media file on disk. For offline clips, these
properties can be modified in the Browser or Item Properties
dialog. However, when clips are connected to media files, you can
only add, delete, or modify Aux timecode using the Modify
Timecode command.
Capture Displays the capture state of a clip in the Batch Capture
queue: Not Yet, OK (captured already), Queued, or Aborted.
Comment A-B Comment information that is not shared across each master and
affiliate clip (as opposed to Master Comments 1–4, which are
stored in the master clip and shared with all affiliates).
Composite Shows the composite mode of a clip, such as Normal, Add, or Travel
Matte. This controls how the pixel values in a clip combine with the
pixel values in clips in underlying video layers, or how the clip
visually interacts with the clip on the track immediately below it.
For more information on composite modes, see Volume III,
Chapter 18, “Compositing and Layering.”
Compressor Displays the codec used to compress a clip’s media file. For clips,
this property is based on the content stored in the clip’s media file;
for sequences, it’s based on the codec specified in the sequence’s
compressor setting.
Different codecs have different ways of compressing video and
audio clips to reduce storage requirements. When a clip is edited
into a sequence, the clip’s media file must use the same codec as
the sequence, otherwise Final Cut Pro must convert from the
media file codec to the sequence codec, which usually is so
processor intensive that it requires rendering.
Creator Shows the name of the application that created the clip’s
media file.
Name of property Description