Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 279)

278 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing
Recapturing Clips
When you recapture a clip, you capture its media file, even if it already has a media file
associated with it. There may be several reasons why you’d want to recapture clips:
 You accidentally deleted a clip’s media file.
 You captured a clip with the wrong capture preset.
 You captured clips at a low resolution for rough, offline editing, and now want to
recapture the clips at full resolution for your final sequence.
Recapturing is essentially the same as capturing. The only notable difference is that when
you recapture, there may already be a media file associated with a clip. When you
recapture media, you can replace the clip’s existing media file, or capture a new media file
to a different location by changing the path of the scratch disk. For more information, see
“
Specifying Scratch Disks for Capturing Video and Storing Render Files ” on page 171.
To recapture your clips, simply follow the batch capturing steps described earlier in
this chapter.
Recapturing Subclips
Subclips refer to portions of media files by using virtual subclip limits. When you tell
Final Cut Pro to capture a subclip, the subclip limits are ignored, and the entire duration
of the original media file is captured.
Recapturing Merged Clips
Merged clips are powerful because they allow you to group together a video media file
and multiple independent audio files within a single clip. This is especially useful for
dual system moviemaking, where video and audio come from separate sources and are
synchronized during postproduction. A merged clip is a single clip in the Browser that
keeps these independent media files synced. When you recapture the media files for a
merged clip, you may have to make several capturing passes from different video and
audio sources.
Important: Generally, it’s best if all audio files referenced by merged clips are stored on
one scratch disk (preferably in the same folder).
For more information about merged clips, see Volume II, Chapter 3, “Merging Clips
From Dual System Video and Audio.”