Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1445)

94 Part I Media and Project Management
Using the Media Manager
There are three main steps to working with the Media Manager:
 Select items in your project.
 Choose a Media Manager operation and its options.
 Start the media management process.
Step 1: Select clips or sequences in your project
Before you can use the Media Manager, you must select items that you want the Media
Manager to process. You can select an entire project, one or more bins, individual or
multiple sequences, clip items within a sequences, or clips in the Browser. Whatever
you want to do, the Media Manager needs to know what to process before it can do
anything. See the examples later in this chapter for some ideas on how to use the
Media Manager.
Step 2: Choose options in the Media Manager window
Once you’ve selected items in your project, open the Media Manager window and
choose options for processing your media. You can select whether clips, sequences,
and so on are duplicated into a new project, and how media is processed (moved,
copied, recompressed, deleted, and so on). Some options are unavailable, or
permanently selected, depending on what other options are selected. You can also
specify a destination for your new media files to be stored.
Step 3: Start the media management process
After specifying your options, click OK in the Media Manager window. Final Cut Pro
displays a warning message before it performs any operation that cannot be undone. A
progress bar shows you the status of the operations as they’re performed.
To use the Media Manager:
1 Select the items in your project that you want to process.
 To operate on your entire project: Select your project’s tab in the Browser, then press
Command-A to select every clip, sequence, and bin in your project.
Note: If no items are selected in the Browser and the Browser is the active window,
Final Cut Pro processes all the items in the current tab. This may be a bin or an
entire project.
 To operate on one or more sequences: In the Browser, select the sequences you want
to process. If the Timeline is the active window, the sequence tab that is currently
selected is the one operated upon.
 To operate on one or more clips: Select one or more clips in the Browser.
 To operate on one or more clip items in a sequence: Clip items are individual clip items
placed on tracks in a sequence. You can use one of the selection tools to select a
range of clip items to operate on.