Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1417)

66 Part I Media and Project Management
Making Clips Offline
You can deliberately make clips in your project offline. This breaks the connection
between a clip in your project and its media file on disk by removing the file path in
the clip’s Source property. Since the file path in a clip’s Source property is shared
among affiliated clips, removing this file path makes all affiliated clips offline at the
same time. This is useful if you want to delete all of your media files in preparation for
recapturing at a higher data rate (for online editing).
In addition to breaking the connection between clips and media files, you can choose
to delete the media files or keep them on your scratch disk. This is useful if you want to
delete all of your media files in preparation for recapturing at a higher data rate, or
simply to get rid of media files you no longer need because you are refining your
project.
To make one or more files offline:
1 In the Browser or Timeline, select the clips or sequences you want to make offline.
2 Do one of the following:
 Choose Modify > Make Offline.
 Control-click a selected item and choose Make Offline from the shortcut menu.
3 Select an option in the Make Offline dialog, then click OK.
 Leave Them on the Disk: Select this option to disconnect clips from their media files
but leave the original media files on your disk. Clips are disconnected because the
file path in each clip’s Source property is cleared, so the clips no longer have a file
location to look for media files.
 Move Them to the Trash: Select this option to disconnect clips from their media files
and move the media files to the Trash. This is different from choosing to delete the
files because you must still empty the Trash to delete the files. This option lets you
consider whether you really want to permanently delete your media files (emptying
the Trash is not undoable). If you decide to keep the files, you must drag them out of
the Trash and use the Reconnect Media command, because the file path in each clip’s
Source property is cleared.
Click an option.