Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1557)

74 Part I Media and Project Management
How the Connection Between Clips and Media Files
Can Be Broken
There are several reasons the connection between the clips in your project and your
media files on disk can break, causing the corresponding clips in your project to go offline:
 You modified your media files in any way that changes the modification date in
the Finder.
 You moved your media files to another folder.
 You renamed your media files.
 You created an offline project file with the Media Manager.
 You deleted your media files on disk. In this case, you have no option but to
recapture the media files.
When a clip in your project goes offline, any sequence render files associated with that
clip also go offline, and the Offline Files dialog appears (see “
When Final Cut Pro
Reconnects Your Clips ” on page 83).
When you play back offline clips, a Media Offline message is displayed until these clips
are either reconnected or recaptured.
Making Clips Offline
You can deliberately make clips in your project offline. This breaks the connection
between a clip in your project and its media file on disk by removing the file path in
the clip’s Source property. Since the file path in a clip’s Source property is shared
among affiliated clips, removing this file path makes all affiliated clips offline at the
same time. This is useful if you want to delete all of your media files in preparation for
recapturing at a higher data rate (for online editing).
In addition to breaking the connection between clips and media files, you can choose to
delete the media files or keep them on your scratch disk. This is useful if you want to
delete all of your media files in preparation for recapturing at a higher data rate, or simply
to get rid of media files you no longer need because you are refining your project.
This type of message
appears when you play
an offline clip.