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About the reconnect files dialog – Apple Final Cut Express HD User Manual

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Part XI

Project Management and Settings

About the Reconnect Files Dialog

The Reconnect Files dialog has the following features:

Files To Connect List
This displays a list of clips organized by clip status:

 Online Files: This refers to clips that are currently referencing the appropriate media

files. You may want to reconnect these clips if you want your clips to reference a
different folder with the same media, or media captured with different settings.

 Offline Files (with a specified path): This refers to clips that contain a file path in the

Source property, but Final Cut Express HD cannot locate the media file at the
specified location.

 Offline Files (with an unspecified path): This refers to clips that have an empty Source

property. In this case, Final Cut Express HD cannot locate the media file because no
location is specified. You need to manually reconnect these clips to their media files,
if possible, using the Locate button.

 Render Files: This refers to sequence render files that Final Cut Express HD cannot

locate in the Render Files folder of your current scratch disk.

 Offline, Online, and Render buttons: You can choose to limit which items are displayed

in the Files to Connect list by clicking the offline, online, or render buttons. One or
more of these buttons may be disabled if none of the selected clips or sequences has
the corresponding clip status. For example, if you only selected online clips, the
offline and render buttons are disabled.

Click Connect to reconnect all clips

listed in the Files Located area.

Displays all clips selected

to be reconnected.

Click to remove the

currently highlighted

clip from the Files To

Connect area.

Choose a directory and
select this checkbox to limit
your media file search to a
single directory.

Displays all clips that

can be reconnected

to media files.

Click this to manually navigate
to a clip’s media file.

Click this to tell
Final Cut Express HD to search
the specified locations for a
clip’s media file.

Click these buttons to filter
which types of clips are
displayed in the Files To
Connect list.