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Chapter 7
Overview of the Media Manager
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You can use the “Create offline” option in the Media Manager to duplicate a
sequence with different video and audio settings. This option doesn’t actually create
any new media files, so the resulting sequence and its clips are offline (meaning the
clips have no media files to refer to). You can then recapture the sequence’s media
files at full resolution for the final edit. This option is typically used in preparation for
online editing.
If two editors both have copies of the media files, but each uses different settings (for
example, DV on one system and OfflineRT on another), you can use this feature to
quickly exchange sequences back and forth via email or the Internet. In this situation,
only a project file containing a sequence needs to be transferred, since both editors
have their own copies of the media files. Once an editor receives a project, the clips
can be reconnected to local media files.
For more information, see Chapter 5, “
Selecting Items to Process With the Media Manager
Before you can use the Media Manager, you need to select which clips, bins,
sequences, or clip items in sequences you want to process. The items you select (and
the master-affiliate clip relationships of those items) determines which clips and media
files are processed.
Here are some examples of what you can select to process with the Media Manager:
 One or more clips in the Browser: These may be master clips, affiliate clips, or a
combination of both.
 One or more sequences: When you select a sequence in the Browser, the Media
Manager operation affects only that sequence’s clips and their corresponding media
files. If the Timeline is the active window and no clips are selected in it, then the
currently selected sequence tab is the one that is operated upon.
 One or more clip items in a sequence: If a sequence is open in the Timeline and the
Timeline is active, you can use one of the selection tools to select particular clip
items. Clip items are individual parts of a clip placed in tracks of a sequence (for
example, a video clip item and two audio clip items from a DV clip). The Media
Manager operations are then restricted to only the selected clip items within the
currently active sequence.
 One or more bins: When you select a bin, the Media Manager processes all the clips
and sequences contained in that bin.
 An entire project: You can select the entire project by making the Browser the active
window, selecting the tab for your project, and then pressing Command-A to select
all items in the Browser. If the Browser is the active window and no items are
selected, the Media Manager processes every item in the project, just as if you had
selected all the items.