Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1420)

Chapter 6 Reconnecting Clips and Offline Media 69
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Files To Connect List
This displays a list of clips organized by clip status:
 Online Files: This refers to clips that are currently referencing the appropriate media
files. You may want to reconnect these clips if you want your clips to reference a
different folder with the same media, or media captured with different settings.
 Offline Files (with a specified path): This refers to clips that contain a file path in the
Source property, but Final Cut Pro cannot locate the media file at the specified
location.
 Offline Files (with an unspecified path): This refers to clips that have an empty Source
property. In this case, Final Cut Pro cannot locate the media file because no location
is specified. You need to manually reconnect these clips to their media files, if
possible, using the Locate button.
 Render Files: This refers to sequence render files that Final Cut Pro cannot locate in
the Render Files folder of your current scratch disk.
 Offline, Online, and Render buttons: You can choose to limit which items are displayed
in the Files to Connect list by clicking the offline, online, or render buttons. One or
more of these buttons may be disabled if none of the selected clips or sequences has
the corresponding clip status. For example, if you only selected online clips, the
offline and render buttons are disabled.
Search Locations Area
This area allows you to choose which folders are searched when Final Cut Pro looks for
media files.
 Skip File: Click this button to remove the current clip highlighted in the Files to
Reconnect list. When this clip is removed, the next clip in the list is highlighted for
reconnection.
 Search Single Location checkbox: When you select this option, only the directory path
in the Search Single Location pop-up menu is searched, as well as any subfolders of
that directory path.
Selecting this option can greatly improve the speed of the search for media files,
especially when you have a lot of media files on your scratch disks or when you are
using a storage area network (SAN) such as an Xsan configuration. The fewer files
and subfolders a directory contains, the faster Final Cut Pro can search for
corresponding media files.
If this checkbox is not selected, Final Cut Pro searches all folders and volumes in the
Search Folders pop-up menu.