Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1428)

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Overview of the Media Manager
The Media Manager helps you move, copy, delete, and
process your project’s media files, automatically updating
the connections between clips and media files.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Can You Do With the Media Manager? (p. 78)
 Selecting Items to Process With the Media Manager (p. 79)
 Settings and Options in the Media Manager Window (p. 80)
 How the Media Manager Processes Selected Items (p. 87)
 Limiting How Much Media Is Copied or Deleted (p. 90)
Getting Started With the Media Manager
The Media Manager has a lot of options, which makes it both powerful and complex.
If you are new to media management in Final Cut Pro, you may find it easier to learn
by trying some of the examples in Chapter 8, “
Examples of How to Use the Media
Manager ,” on page 93.
When learning how to manage your media in Final Cut Pro, it’s also important to
understand the distinctions between master and affiliate clips, media files, subclips,
and so on. For more information, see Chapter 3, “
Elements of a Final Cut Pro Project ,”
on page 29.