Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1232)

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Using Generator Clips
Final Cut Pro can generate several types of clips for you to
use in your sequences, including bars and tone, placeholders,
and backgrounds.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is a Generator Clip? (p. 447)
 Different Ways to Use Generators in Your Sequence (p. 448)
 Video and Audio Generators Available in Final Cut Pro (p. 449)
 Creating and Adding Generators to Sequences (p. 453)
Note: For details about creating titles using text generators, see Chapter 23, “ Creating
Titles ,” on page 471.
What Is a Generator Clip?
Generators behave the same as other clips, but their content is actually generated
internally in Final Cut Pro. Generators never refer to media files on the scratch disk, so
they can never be offline as can clips that refer to media files. Because generators are
generated by Final Cut Pro, their aspect ratio, dimensions, resolution, and codec are
determined by the sequence they are edited into (unlike video and audio clips, in
which these characteristics are based on the media files they refer to).