Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 17)

Chapter 2 Final Cut Pro basics 17
Media files and clips
After you import media into Final Cut Pro, clips representing the source media files appear in the
Event Browser. A large event may hold many clips.
Media files are the raw materials you use to create your project. A media file is a video, audio,
still-image, or graphics file on your hard disk that contains footage transferred from a camcorder
or recording device or originally created on your computer. Media files can contain multiple
video and audio components. Because media files—especially video files—tend to be quite
large, projects that use a lot of footage require one or more high-capacity hard disks.
Clips represent your media, but they are not the media files themselves. The clips in a project
simply point to (link to) the source media files on your hard disk. When you modify a clip, you
are not modifying the media file, just the clip’s information in the project. This is known as
nondestructive editing, because all of the changes and effects you apply to clips in Final Cut Pro
never affect the media itself. Trimmed or deleted pieces of clips are removed from your project
only, not from the source clips in your Event Library or from the source media files on your
hard disk.
Project 2
Toy1
Event clips
Media files on your hard disk
Project 3 Project 1
Toy1.mov
Toy1
Toy1 Toy1