Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1530)

Chapter 4 Working with Master and Affiliate Clips 47
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Unique Clip Properties
The following clip properties are unique to each affiliate clip and unique to the master clip
as well. These properties are not shared. Most of these properties are properties for editing
and trimming, such as In and Out points, so that each affiliate clip can have a unique
duration in a sequence while still referring to the same media file via its master clip.
 Comment A–B
 In point
 Out point
 Duration
 Description
 Pixel Aspect Ratio
 Film Safe
 Gamma Level
 Composite mode
 Reverse Alpha
 Thumbnail
Working with Master Clips
A master clip is created automatically when you import or capture a media file in
Final Cut Pro. All subsequent clips created from this master clip are affiliated with that
master clip.
In addition to capturing and importing clips into a project, there are several other ways
to create new master clips:
 Create a new subclip, merged clip, multiclip, or freeze frame clip: When each of these is
created, it is a master clip. When you edit with one of these clips, affiliate clips are
created from the master clip.
In all cases, newly created subclips, merged clips, and freeze frame clips have no
master-affiliate relationship to the original clips used when creating them. For
example, if you drag a group of audio and video clip items from a sequence into the
Browser, a new master merged clip is created. When you create instances of the
merged clip as you edit, affiliate merged clips are created.
 Import an EDL: This creates a sequence of affiliate clips and a bin containing the
sequence clips’ master clips. This makes media management much easier than if all
the sequence clips were independent.