Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1496)

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Media Management
Successful editing requires effective media management.
You should pick a media management strategy before
you begin your project.
This chapter covers the following:
 What Is Media Management? (p. 13)
 Reasons to Use Media Management (p. 14)
 What You Need to Know to Manage Your Media (p. 15)
 Media Management Steps in Final Cut Pro (p. 15)
 Strategies for Media Management (p. 16)
What Is Media Management?
Media management is a term used for several related tasks throughout post-
production. In general, any task that relates to processing your media is considered to
be media management, such as capturing, compressing, copying, moving, or deleting
media files. However, media management also refers to keeping track of your media
files via clip properties such as log notes, comments, scene number, shot/take number,
and so on.
The flexibility and power of media management in Final Cut Pro stems from one
simple fact: a clip and its media file are treated independently. In Final Cut Pro, a more
accurate description of media management would be clip and media management. What
makes the separation of clips and media files so powerful? Here are a few examples:
 Reconnecting clips to new media files: You can create new media files for your project
at any time, and reconnect the clips in your project to the new media files.
 Direct access to your media files: You can directly access your QuickTime media files
in the Finder at any time. You can also easily create clips by dragging media files
directly into your project via the Browser. In fact, you can even edit by dragging
media files from the Finder directly into the Timeline or Canvas.