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Press Delete.
This removes the clip from your project, but the media file is still on the disk.
Important:
Because you deleted the clip, any comments or notes applied to the clip
are now gone.
6
Switch back to the Finder and move the media file to the folder where you want to
keep all the media files associated with your project.
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Drag the media file from its new folder in the Finder to the Browser in Final Cut Pro.
You now have the same clip as before, but it points to its media file in the proper location.
If your clip has comments and notes that you don’t want to lose by deleting the clip,
you can ignore the step where you delete the clip from the Browser. In this case,
Final Cut Pro warns you that the clip’s media file has gone “offline” when you return to
the application. You can choose to reconnect the clip’s media file, which is now in the
proper location, using the Reconnect window.
About the Connections Between Clips and Media Files
Final Cut Pro is very flexible about the connection between clips and their media files.
It is fairly easy to make a clip go offline by accidentally moving or modifying a media
file in the Finder, but it is also very easy to reconnect clips to media files.
A clip connects to a media file via the clip’s Source property, which contains the
location of the media file as a file path. If a clip cannot locate its media file, the media
file is considered offline, and the clip is called an offline clip. An offline clip has a red
slash through its icon in the Browser:
These are offline clips.