Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1433)

82 Part I Media and Project Management
Media Pop-Up Menu
The choices in this pop-up menu represent the main Media Manager tasks. All other
options in the Media Manager follow from the choice you make here.
 Copy: This option copies all the selected items’ media files to the folder or disk
specified in the Media Destination path.
 Move: This option moves selected items’ media files to the location specified in the
Media Destination path.
 Recompress: This is nearly the same as the Copy option, but it allows you to
recompress the selected items’ media files using a codec different from the one they
were captured with and place them at a specified location. You choose the
recompression settings used from the “Recompress media using” pop-up menu,
which lists all sequence presets in Final Cut Pro. If no preset suits your needs, you can
choose Custom and specify your own settings in the Sequence Preset Editor window
that appears. These settings cannot be saved as a sequence preset; they are used
only for the immediate operation.
Note: The “Recompress media using” pop-up menu is available only when the
Recompress option is chosen.
When using the Recompress option, clips’ motion attributes are changed to match
the new dimensions of the sequence preset you chose. Only QuickTime movies
are recompressed; other types of files (such as Photoshop and AIFF files) are
simply copied.
Note: The Recompress option may fail with clips using codecs that rely upon
temporal compression, such as Sorenson and Cinepak. To recompress these files in
these codecs, you may want to use the Batch Export feature instead.
Important: You cannot use the Recompress option to convert NTSC media to PAL,
PAL media to NTSC, or any other frame rate conversion. If you try, the frame size
will change to the new size, but the frame rate will remain the same as in the
original media.
 Use Existing: This option allows you to use the currently existing media that’s linked
to the selected items. If you delete unused media using this option, the unused
media is actually deleted from your original media files, with or without handles,
as specified.
Important: Be extremely careful when choosing the “Use existing” option; the Media
Manager deletes each media file as soon as it finishes processing it. Canceling this
operation may restore the media file currently being processed, but media files that
have already been processed cannot be restored.