Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1419)

68 Part I Media and Project Management
Reconnecting Clips to Media Files
Clips in your project don’t have to be offline for you to use the Reconnect Media
command. You can reconnect media files to clips in your project at any time, since all
you are doing is changing the file path stored in the clip’s Source property.
Reconnecting the links between clips and media files is the most obvious reason for
doing this, but there are other reasons to use the Reconnect Media command:
 To reconnect clips in your project to higher-resolution versions of the media files in
preparation for online editing
 To reconnect clips in your project to lower-resolution versions of the media files for
mobile editing, or to fit more media on a relatively small hard disk. This is usually
known as offline editing.
Note: The terms offline clip and offline editing are not related.
 To reconnect clips after you modify, move, or delete media files in the Finder and
return to Final Cut Pro.
About the Reconnect Files Dialog
The Reconnect Files dialog has the following features:
Click Connect to reconnect all clips
listed in the Files Located area.
Displays all clips selected
to be reconnected.
Click to remove the
currently highlighted
clip from the Files To
Connect area.
Choose a directory and
select this checkbox to limit
your media file search to a
single directory.
Displays all clips that
can be reconnected
to media files.
Click this to manually navigate
to a clip’s media file.
Click this to tell Final Cut Pro to
search the specified locations
for a clip’s media file.
Click these buttons to filter
which types of clips are
displayed in the Files To
Connect list.